Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in Los Angeles, short, sharp-eyed Benny the Meatball grew chubby and genial and almost quit carrying a rod. Los Angeles was paradise for a wrong gee with the right connections. The sun was warm, suckers in dark glasses stood under every palm tree, and the cops obligingly kept Eastern hoods out of town...
Lady Luck (RKO Radio) is a tired, old-fashioned farce struggling with desperate unsuccess to palm itself off as fresh comedy-romance...
...Easy Way. In February 1945, Heidt bought a faltering restaurant in Beverly Hills for $65,000. A month later he bought a glorified auto court (the Lone Palm Hotel) in Palm Springs for $225,000. (Last fortnight he refused to sell...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
Died. Edward Riley Bradley, 86, onetime bookmaker and longtime "honest gambler," who became a multimillionaire as proprietor of Palm Beach's Casino, famed & respected owner of some of America's most famous race horses (Blue Larkspur, Bimelech, Bubbling Over), only four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby; in Lexington...