Word: poinciana
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...lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...
Frankly, we don't think Joe E. Lewis is worth it, but Austin Mack, his piano player, is a Harvard man, so there will be a convert charge of $1.50 per person. Saturdays, it's $2.00 per person. --Advertisement of the restaurant at the Poinciana Hotel, Miami Beach...
...hands of contractors, ready for razing, was Palm Beach's straggling yellow 40-year-old Royal Poinciana, most famed of Florida hotels, largest frame building...
...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...
...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...