Word: valentino
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Tokyo and Berlin, in their peculiar fashions, caught the hysteria: they yowled that MacArthur in Australia was just one more Allied commander in flight. The New York Sun's London correspondent attained a height of adulation. Not since Valentino, the correspondent reported, had Londoners succumbed to any man as they had succumbed to MacArthur's "looks and personality." Unmuzzled at last, the Australian press headlined: THE MAN OF THE MOMENT...
...restaurateur (Café de la Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, André and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo...
...Korda; United Artists) is the late Carole Lombard's last picture. Like Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino), Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Will Rogers) and Saratoga (Jean Harlow), it was posthumously released. Fortunately for all concerned, To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire...
...when his name was on the lips of every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker...
...Graphic "composograph" (faked photograph) upped circulation 100,000 when it was employed to show Rudolph Valentino entering the spirit world...