Word: palme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Beach season swung into its second week. Closed for the first time in 40 years was the Royal Poinciana, world's largest wooden hotel. The Breakers did a nice business at $26 a day. More shops were opened than at any time since 1929, but Best, Macy, Jay-Thorpe, Bonwit Teller failed to resume branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue...
...whom he has stolen from a baron. The transformation starts when Topaze loses his job for punishing the baron's stupid son. It is completed when the baron (Reginald Mason) has made Topaze head of a fraudulent mineral water company and has procured for him the Academic Palm, which the professor has spent a lifetime trying to win by honest means...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...
...carbon dioxide gas spigot they had opened; stop a young man who was running about with a candle on a silver serving tray asking loudly for an honest woman said he was Dy Jennies or some one like that. The two of them wanted to carry out a potted palm: they said they had an empty corner in their room it would just fill up nicely. Just as soon as I got them quieted, there was a lot of noise at the door, and a feller kept trying to force his way in. Said he was a Yaadcop and that...
...careful young banker-snob, sent to manage the firm's Palm Beach branch, makes a "success" at the expense of everything...