Word: riviera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Rags to Riches that the reversal hardly lends enough body to his biographer's Cinderella-theme. When Berlin was 19, Nigger Mike discharged him. Within four years, he had written a tune which was played in every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody's Doin' It Now, I Want...
...following his retirement as Governor of Nebraska. William has been conducting Sunday School services every Sunday out of doors in Royal Palm Park, Miami. For this he receives, presumably, no?or little?pay. Operating at Miami, there is, however, a concern known as the Coral Gables Miami Riviera Co.?needless to say, realtors. This concern has "developed 4,000 acres and recently purchased 6,000 acres more for "development" at a publicly estimated cost of $100,000,000. In connection with this development, there is a "Venetian Casino," containing a Venetian swimming pool, lounges, etc. Over...
York was in East Africa and the Duke of Connaught (King's uncle) on the French Riviera...
...Fair," he said, "and the new fourth act of The Green Hat. Don't lose it on your life!" May Fair, his next book, is a continuation of These Charming People; but Arlen has not been contented merely to collect his magazine material. He went to the Riviera recently, shut himself up in a hotel room, and rewrote the sketches completely for the book. May Fair will be published this spring, and another story in the autumn...
...Nice, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen has been playing tennis, always victoriously. Loungers in the sunshine of the Riviera smiled with tolerant skepticism at these glorious triumphs of the leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick...