Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Larger than the largest diamond found in South Africa's Kimberley Mines (442 carats) or in her De Beers Mines (503 carats) was a monstrous Brazilian diamond of 574 carats found last week by an impecunious prospector in Bello Horizonte, 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro, on the lands of rich Dona Dolores Matta Machado Vidigal...
Continually harassed by Prohibition agents in their Manhattan Night Club, the company decides to carry on henceforth on the safe side of the Rio Grande. There Mr. Overman offers to make Mr. Lahr a bull fighter, working him up to a great pitch of excitement by pointing out that all the women will want to make love to him. As to the dangers, Mr. Lahr has to admit that in his anxiety he had been "making a mountain out of a Dunhill." His courage rises even higher when Mr. Overman drags out a small, moony-eyed calf which he says...
...killing along the Rio Grande made Nogales jump for Asia. Then he did military intelligence work prior to the Sino-Japanese War, cleared out to Alaska in time to save most of his skin. He followed gold down into Nevada, went broke with the boom, rustled cattle along the Mexican border. When President Gomez relieved Castro as dictator of Venezuela, Exile Nogales made tracks for home. He soon fell out with Gomez too, harassed his government with interminable border fights. Failure was just threatening to rob him of military adventure when the World War began. He tried...
With a graceful wave of his hand President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno last week bade his people celebrate Martes de carnes-tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people...
...much gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved for his virtues, Master Caccia-Dominioni arranges papal audiences, is present at all functions. Proudly he escorted Mussolini upstairs, to the Pope...