Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frankly said that Benito Mussolini might have great difficulty in deciding what clever Sir Samuel actually meant. "It is possible to imagine Mussolini meditating various conclusions from the words used," said the Post, adding with satisfaction, "there is nothing in the speech to suggest that in the last resort England would act alone to maintain the integrity of Ethiopia." But Sir Samuel's speech was not about an English solo but rather about a European concert on behalf of Ethiopia and "when I say collective responsibility, I mean collective responsibility...
...knocked off an armored truck full of bookmakers' money and were waiting to see Marco about an old matter involving a hijacked brewery. It occurs to Marco at once that it would be a funny prank to distribute the cadavers over the lawns of various visitors at the resort who have in times past offended him. All this becomes vastly complicated when Marco's daughter suddenly returns home with the news that she is engaged to a rich young aristocrat from Dutchess County, and when the rich young aristocrat appears in the natty uniform of a member...
Artists in the U. S. will, if necessary, argue all through the night about their work, but they seldom resort to gunfire. In Mexico, art is taken much more seriously. Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear...
...George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance. He was one of the few English kings who was also a patron of the arts. Gay and entertaining, with considerable taste in painting and architecture, he was principally responsible for the creation of Brighton as a superb pleasure resort...
Brighton was merely a small health resort when George of Wales made it his summer court. Eighteenth Century physicians commonly prescribed large quantities of mineral water for all ailments; at Brighton invalids dosed themselves accordingly and discovered the pleasures of bathing almost by accident. By the time Prince George arrived, bathing had become popular, although noblemen were still usually so dirty that no sensitive person could stay long in a crowd of them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting...