Word: vina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving the politicians to work out details with his ministers of finance and economy, the president flew to Vina del Mar for a weekend of swimming, tennis, and Brahms recordings at the summer palace. Then, starting the engines of his cinnamon-colored DC-3 himself, he flew back to Santiago...
...streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
...read for literary value, this book soon resembles a Coney Island museum of horrors, in which are displayed the works of such literary curiosities as Vicki Baum and Warwick Deeping, such terrible stuff as Michael Arlen's green-plush patter about the smarter set and Vina Delmar's teary tribute to the "bad girl...
...Chile's most gracious resort city the season was in full swing. Well-heeled Chileans and vacationists from foreign countries splashed in the green Pacific surf at Vina del Mar, took the summer sun on its white beaches 90 miles west of Santiago. Racing fans crowded the clubhouse and the rail at the Sporting Club to see Bromazo win the annual derby this week...
Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...