Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train, but Their Royal Highnesses were not on it. From The Hague the hotel proprietor received a terse Dutch telegram canceling the honeymoon reservations, explaining "the plans of Their Royal Highnesses have changed." Two days later Their Royal Highnesses were discovered merrily honeymooning in Krynica, a jolly little ski resort in the Carpathian Mountains of Southern Poland...
Boosters of Arizona as a health resort were last week obliged to swallow a bitter purge compounded for them by Field Director Carl Edward Buck of the American Public Health Association. Reported Dr. Buck, after surveying the State's health ambitions and failings: "In every single one of the largely or partially preventable causes of death, Arizona has a much higher rate, in some instances three or even four times higher, than the country as a whole." Arizona's remarkable categories of death: Infant and maternal mortality, tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, diarrhea and enteritis, motor accidents...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...
...Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum, 6,000 ft. above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built to be the No. 1 wintersports resort of the Western Hemisphere, will this week open to a covey of 250 skiers and celebrities topped by Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...cute baby actresses who set back the public with winsome appeal. Although more natural and healthy than la Temple, she is ill served by her studio. The great Duse herself would fail to delight if continually coddled by an old sea captain like Guy Kibbee. A summer resort is the scene of mild melodrame concerning a pirate treasure hunt and two gangsters up from the city. Kibbee moves pleasantly in and out of jail and spends every fifth minute kissing little Jason...