Word: vina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...
...from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that...
...Vina and Eugene Delmar are a happy-go-lucky pair of citizens. They married when they were both looking for jobs on Broadway, graduated to writing for Snappy Stories magazine, now have a very good job collaborating on fiction and cinema scripts for which pert Vina (Bad Girl) invariably gets the credit. Last week the inseparable Delmars were put asunder for the first time in 17 years...
...named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus. The three Cuban planes, all new single-motored, 285-h. p. Stinson "Reliants," were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily they took off. visited in turn the nearby Indies, Venezuela, Brazil, passed over Paraguay to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador...
...agreed to learn three Italian roles and reduce 25 Ib. in three months, made her U. S. debut in II Trovatore (Leonore). Nicola Moscona, Greek basso, attracted the whole Greek colony to his Ramfis (Aïda). Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini) from absolute mediocrity; dependable molasses-voiced Contralto Bruna Castagna (always affectionately regarded by Manhattan operagoers who knew her when she sang at the lowly Hippodrome) saved at least three operas (Samson et Dalila, II Trovatore, Norma) from a similar fate...