Word: tia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First effect of annexation would be the extinction of Tia Juana and Agua Caliente just over the border as drinking-racing-gambling resorts for U. S. tourists...
Married. Lee De Forest, 57, electrical inventor (pioneer in radio, sound cinema, television), uncle of Cinemactress Bebe Virginia Daniels; and Marie Mosquini, 41, oldtime comic-film actress, friend of Miss Daniels; secretly, two weeks ago, at Tia Juana, Mexico, a few days before the formalization of his divorce from the second Mrs. De Forest, Singer Mary Mayo of Manhattan...
...sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays opposite her, is better suited in drawing room dramas. Real sailors will writhe with rage at his interpretation of a gob. Best shot: marriage episode in a Tia Juana dance hall where the proprietor has offered a prize of $100 to any couple marrying on the premises...
Inspired by the ten commandments of Tia Juana and the sermon on Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...
...yielding in big events to the inspired rallies of inferior players. Two weeks ago he broke his custom of staying in Florida all winter by going to Agua Caliente, Mexico. The men who have built hotels, casinos and a race-track there to attract the money formerly spent at Tia Juana, a few miles away, tempted him and other famed players by making the prizes of their first tournament bigger than those of any other tournament in the world...