Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed, the horses are gone. Two are sent out to bring aid; they are returned dead, strapped to their mounts. A private climbs a palm tree to reconnoitre, and falls with a bullet through his head. And so it goes, until only McLaglen remains...
...Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they had reservations. The best hotels, all full, were charging...
...Palm Beach Mrs. A. Atwater Kent gave a luncheon for 90, Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury a dinner for 175, and a concert by the Romany Chorus packed its house with 500 auditors at $10 a head...
...Garden Clubs of America, arriving to attend the Palm Beach Club's annual flower show, were met by "the largest fleet of wheel chairs ever assembled" and trundled off to the conservatory of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which had been remodeled to resemble the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Palm Beach alone boasted the presence during the past fortnight of over 100 titled Europeans, including Major General the Earl of Athlone & the Countess of Athlone, Grand Duke Dmitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lord Forteviot and Baron & Baroness de Gunzbourg of Paris...
...been a long time since anything has cheered one quite as much as the news that Joseph E. Widener-'Mister' Widener, as we intimates call him around the horse parks-has been entertaining the Earl and Countess of Athlone at Palm Beach. Mister Widener is as plain as an old diamond tiara and as Democratic as the Mikado himself...