Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer and his lawyer's wife. Every woman, says the man-about-town, wants to be kissed. The lawyer says his wife is an exception. To prove his point the man-about-town bets $10,000 he can kiss the next woman who comes out on the veranda. Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonold and Roland Young are the principals. Best part: Una Merkel as an insufferable Girl from the South...
Long after the match was over they were talking about it on the veranda of the casino and over at the Greenbrier, using what they knew about the temperaments of the players, as much as their memory of what they had seen, to understand what had happened. It was an episode pregnant with questions of sportsmanship and it took place under the eyes of Joseph W. Wear, chairman of the Davis Cup Committee, in a quarter final match of the Mason & Dixon tournament at White Sulphur Springs, just three days before the 1930 Davis Cup team was to be selected...
...waxed ecstatic a few minutes later at a unique new feature of the Paris, proudly displayed by dynamic General Director Maurice Tillier of the French Line. On no other ship, claimed he, is there an entire deck devoted exclusively to grand luxe suites each with a separate, private promenade-veranda on which the dogs and children of rich passengers may do their yapping and yonking without annoying ordinary First Class passengers-and of course vice versa...