Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population has shot from 65,000 to 2,250,000. Located squarely on the Tropic of Capricorn some 5,000 miles south and east of New York, it is the southern hemisphere's most dynamic community, the economic powerhouse of the vast republic of Brazil. A palm-studded metropolis, exuberantly expanding under the leadership of some of the world's hardest-working, toughest-trading enterprisers, it is a kind of tropical Chicago...
...Grand Manner. He lived magnificently. When Widower Williams married twice-divorced Mona Bush, a handsome Kentucky belle 24 years his junior, their honeymoon was spent on Williams' Warrior, then the world's largest yacht. He bought villas at Capri, Palm Beach, Long Island, Judge Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion and a Paris town house. Perennially, couturiers hailed Mona Williams as the best-dressed woman in the world...
...plan, one of five developed by several teams, calls for a lush setup with high priced hotels, a plethora of swimming pools, a casino, golf course, and dog and horse tracks which would make the rugged isle a sort of frigid Palm Beach...
...Barefoot Mailman (Columbia) is a horse opera without horses. It takes place not in the West but on the Florida frontier of 1890, when the U.S. mail traveled between primitive Miami and Palm Beach on bare but intrepid feet. The menace comes from a marauding band of beachcombers, who would as gladly rob the postal service as kidnap the ingenue or shoot up the village of Miami. In bright new SupercineColor,* they accomplish all three...
...American brought up the "ludicrous and embarassing" pictures of Truman in Palm Beach sport shirts which were appearing currently in newspapers and magazines. "It certainly must make a poor impression on people in other countries," he said. But the foreign students present were inclined to disagree. A Pakistani commented." Well, the British would sneer, the French might chuckle, but after all--he's a family man and a human being and entitled to some relaxation...