Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women. In Rio de Janeiro, ten girls whom Severino Felix da Silva invited to his party fell to fighting over him, left him battered senseless...
...Rio's brilliant night life was forthwith blacked out. Three million-dollar establishments in the capital-the Urea, Atlantico and Copacabana-shut down...
...decree. In a country with vastly more money than goods, casino profits had skyrocketed in the last two years to fantastic heights. The Government take in taxes had risen to the dangerous point where casinos were providing a fifth to a tenth of its $600,000,000 income. Rio papers all took the view that the President's action would place the country on a sounder financial footing...
Life without Father. Father's name was Devlan, not Fowler. He was an apprentice patternmaker in the machine shops of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mother sang a rich soprano in the choir of the Methodist Church. Not long after their marriage in 1889, Father decided that he had had all he could stand. Without even waiting to see whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he cleared out for the mountains of Clear Creek County, west of Denver. The boy grew up and never laid eyes on Charlie Devlan until he was 30 and Charlie...
Dead Issue. In Rio de Janeiro, two widows met for the first time at a funeral parlor, had a short talk, then a good cry. Reason: they mourned the same...