Word: riviera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Robert Schuman replaced him as Foreign Minister in 1948, Bidault sulked for a while on the Riviera, then plunged back into party politics and was elected president of the M.R.P. He was the French delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, and showed himself, in the phrase of one observer, "a sincere and ardent bickerer" for European cooperation...
...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...
...Riviera, Amateur Painter Merle Oberon dropped into Lord Beaverbrook's villa to show one of her seascapes to Amateur Painter Winston Churchill. "What are those little white specks?" asked Churchill. "Sailing boats," replied Merle, unabashed. Said Churchill, recovering gallantly: "You have a nice eye for color." Then the two looped arms and went off for a swim...
...widow whom Barkley had managed of late to see most every weekend. But the nation's tabloid readers needed no explanation. Last week they were following the sedate capers of 71-year-old Widower Alben Barkley with the interest usually reserved for limber-loined starlets bound for the Riviera...
Deauville in northwest France (long-considered much more chic in August than the hot Riviera), where they expected to visit the Aga's son, the Aly Khan, and his bride, Rita Hayworth. Just outside the gates of their villa, a black Citroën (license number 1707RN7) crowded their Cadillac to the side of the road. Three shabbily dressed men jumped out, and before anyone could snap a finger the Aga Khan's party was looking into the muzzles of menacing Tommy guns...