Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some weeks distinguished medical consultants have been anxiously in attendance upon the Queen Mother Margherita of Italy, at her villa near Bordighera, famed and balmy Italian Rivera resort...
...curious statistics. For instance, economy in ship space makes the location of the library a ticklish problem. The passengers' smoking room has been found a poor place because the passengers inevitably borrow the books. While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes a ship's carpenter, or a baggage steward...
...evangelist met a girl in a "resort...
...There are only four methods of settling disputes when diplomacy has been exhausted: by resort to the League of Nations of those states that are members of the League, by resort to arbitration, by resort to the World Court, by war. Resort to war by weak nations is impossible...
...Prince is said to have examined with particular care a roulette wheel, seized at a London gambling resort, which could be controlled at will by the croupier...