Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cuban officials would not fail to point out to President Coolidge the 15½-million-dollar pleasure park projected near Havana by the U. S. Biltmore interests (John McEntee Bowman, chief); the 706-mile highway which Cuba is building from Pinar del Rio on the west to Santiago de Cuba on the southeast coast...
Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan...
Soon the Lloyd George family were welcomed as official and honored guests of the Estados Unidos do Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling...
...Rio, Mr. Lloyd George crossed the Equator and was rousingly ducked in consequence by "Father Neptune." Miss Megan Lloyd George confided to ship companions that she plans to stand for Parliament on returning to England...
Asked about the cost of his various productions, Ziegfeld said that his five shows, "The Follies," "Rosalie," "Show Boat," "Rio Rita," and "The Three Musketeers" cost over $2,200,000 to put on, and that the weekly expense is over...