Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gizi, previously hailed by Szepesi for her "moral superiority over her fellow contestants," was ignominiously packed off by plane. Instead of playing in Goteborg and London this week, Gizi will be out of temptation's way, back in the glorious Hungarian People's Republic...
Fugitives from Nanking and Shanghai snarled and haggled their way through Canton's grimly thorough customs inspectors, then burst into a boom town. Canton this week was Reno and Juarez, Galveston and Eldorado-all wrapped up in dazzling, neon-splashed tapestry...
...Quelle Horreur!" At 5:30 on the evening of Sept. 30, 1869, France's Empress left St. Cloud with her staff, her pets and her retainers to board the imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed...
...years that have passed since then, the glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...
From Martinique way...