Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, auto-racing Prince Rainier III, 26, mounted the throne of the 370-acre kingdom of Monaco, which recently installed dice tables in its Monte Carlo casino to shake more dollars out of crap-shooting Americans. The youthful bachelor ruler succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, who died last...
...Mount Rainier National Park
...Antoine II, 78, since 1922 ruler of pocket-sized Monaco (370 acres), whose chief sources of income are postage stamps and Monte Carlo's gambling casino (the 24,000 Monegasques pay no income taxes); four days after he abdicated in favor of his grandson, 25-year-old Prince Rainier; in Monaco...
...frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947. That was the lay when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho ooked out of his airplane near Mt. Rainier nd saw-or thought he saw-nine enormous discs flying at 1,200 m.p.h. The .ewspapers began to talk about "flying saucers...
...pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...