Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surviving U. S. Army "Good Will" planes (TIME, March 7), flew in to Montevideo from Buenos Aires. Leaving the harbor soon after, the San Francisco failed to rise from the water, hit a rock. Damage was (slight and soon mended, though ; Lieut. Muir S. Fairchild broke a irib. Soon Rio de Janeiro turned out to welcome* the pilgrims to Brazil...
...foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back to Fernando Noronha to spend the night. A rough landing necessitated minor repairs but next day Port Natal turned out to fete him, then Pernambuco further down the coast, then Rio de Janiero. Back over the ocean, in Italy, an excitable press and populace rejoiced that a Fascist, "a messenger of Italianity," had duplicated the feat first performed in 1926 by the Spaniard, Ramon Franco...
Commander de Pinedo's itinerary directed him north from Rio de Janiero to Jamaica, Cuba, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, New York. His was a "four-continent" flight, planned to give "new proof of virile national power." He flew with two comrades. His seaplane, the Santa Maria, was built at Milan, with two 550-h.p. Isotta-Fraschini motors...
...ungodly Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside smell. It is responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last week in Rio de Janeiro. It became known that a Brazilian admirer, conscious of my flair for describing animals (both domestic and wild) had sent to my hotel an armadillo, a creature for whose origin I facetiously accounted in my Just So story about the porcupine and the tortoise. I kept the gift...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...