Word: rios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Happy last week, were officers and men of the U. S. S. Utah as their ship rolled up from Rio, taking Herbert Hoover home. Capt. C. R. Train praised his men for having aroused not a single complaint during their shore leave in Brazil. Every man received a Christmas card autographed by President-Elect and Mrs. Hoover. Homecoming plans had been altered to make Washington, not Florida, the journey's end. Inasmuch as most of the Utah's personnel live closer to Hampton Roads than to Key West, the change meant that many of them could see wives...
President and Senhora Washington Luis Pereira de Souza† had come into Rio from the summer capital at Petropolis in time to dash up to the gangplank amid a fanfare of trumpets. Also present were Vice President Mello Vianna and many a Senator and Deputy. Bright-uniformed guards lined the Avenida Rio Branco up which the procession passed. Confetti and ticker-tape snowed down à la the U. S. The crowd was estimated at the conventional...
...forth to explore Rio's splendors, Mr. Hoover made the gesture of dismissing his secret-service guard. He said he felt perfectly safe among Brazilians. Motors carried the visitors up to Hunchback and Sugarloaf Mountains...
Revenge. Dolores Del Rio can stamp her foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift...
...Just before Revenge opened in Manhattan Jaime Del Rio, divorced husband of Dolores, died in a German sanitorium after having been assured of her love. (TIME...