Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virtually ignored by the U. S. press, the Galveston tournament was Big News elsewhere in the world. In Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...have, though eight hours from Sao Paulo, Capital of the State of Sao Paulo, available very splendid Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo papers with current events (written in Portuguese, not Spanish, as even yet some poor misguided Americans think...
Biggest news of the week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio's front pages were rapt descriptions of how Manhattan welcomed shapely Olga. Rio editors dissertated on the significance of the occasion...
...base of Pike's Peak, last week, Bill Williams of Rio Hondo, Tex., started to nose-push a peanut. His purpose: To push it to the top. Mr. Williams acquired his nose-pushing habit last year when he lost an election bet on Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Dance and Baynes Destiny Waltz. This will be followed by Officer of the Day and a Football Medley by the Banjo Club with W. S. Warner '32 conducting. A. H. Parker '32 will direct the Vocal Club in singing Bullard's Winter Song and German's Rolling Down to Rio...