Word: resort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsomely mounted on a white horse, India's Prime Minister Nehru last week cantered up a road in the hill resort of Mussoorie. Looking as fit as a much younger man and wearing a red rose in his buttonhole, 69-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru dismounted at Birla House, a large English-style cottage, and strode across the green lawn in the glittering afternoon sunshine that drenched the surrounding fir trees and the distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted...
...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
Signing himself simply Mr. Randolph, an outraged British subject wrote the King at the end of the 17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
...Andros Island, Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish tycoon (Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Bofors guns), has sunk $11 million in a long-range resort-and-home-building project. On the northern end of Andros, Parker Pen Co. Chairman Kenneth S. Parker is developing 8,500 acres of building and truck-gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach...
...pictures boldly played; its brighter columns carried livelier, shorter stories. Inevitably the Observer, historically dominant, stole further circulation and advertising marches on the News. By last year News Publisher Thomas Lambard Robinson, watching his paper slip below the break-even point, put it on the block, as a last resort offered it to Jim Knight...