Word: playa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other time of year it was Cuba-time last week-time to sail into Havana Harbor and remember the Maine, time to watch Corona Corona cigars being made in a factory across the street from Cuba's presidential palace, time to tennis, golf and swim at La Playa de Marianoa ("Cuba's Monte Carlo"), finally time to go down and see "Cuba's Mussolini," President Gerardo Machado y Morales, who has just locked 1,000 smart, socialite, yacht-owning Cubans out of their own Havana Yacht Club because a potent member of the Dictator's cabinet...
Dynamic, warm, lavish, Byoir is an instinctive mixer. Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...