Word: remo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...
Lear was a professional expatriate of the Robert Browning-Walter Savage Landor school. Most of his life was spent in Rome, Corfu, San Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There...
...Field Marshal Hermann Goring returned to San Remo, Italy, to resume a vacation interrupted when Czecho-Slovakia was seized, and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Propaganda Minister Goebbels were also holiday-bound. This seemed to mean (although no foreign country was counting on it) that the Mehrer was not planning any more military ventures immediately...
...Mandate over Palestine granted to Great Britain by the Allied Powers at San Remo incorporated the Balfour Declaration for a Jewish National Home and did not give the Arabs control of this territory. The Hebrew claim to Palestine is based not only on residence in Biblical times but on the fact that there has always been a Jewish settlement in Palestine since then. Furthermore, Jewish colonization has not and would not deprive Arabs of their land or oust them from the country. With the advent of the Zionists, the Arab standard of living has risen, and the Arab population...
...Remo's tenants are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bijur, who pay $5,000 a year for nine rooms. Mrs. Bijur, thirtyish and blonde, is a great-granddaughter of the William Mooney (no relation to California's Tom Mooney) who founded Manhattan's Tammany Hall. Lawyer Bijur's late father was Nathan Bijur, a justice of New York's Supreme Court, and his first cousin is Adman George Bijur. The Harry Bijurs have three servants, a Packard, an active interest in Catholic charities, no leanings toward parlor pinkery. They might well tire of having strikers picket...