Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing may we say you cannot blame our starting in journalism on Alhambra High School's famous "Moor"--the old man cut tombstone inscriptions, hence the "natural cause of things...
...General Electric salesman walked out of the tiny, plain reception room of the unimpressive little plant in Alhambra, Calif. of Lights Incorporated, which manufactures lighting equipment for airports and airplanes. He turned to Managing Director Harry Swift Kimball, told him: "If anyone had ever told me that I'd walk out of the front door of that dump of yours with a million-dollar order in my hand I'd have figured he was crazy...
...past the Maginot Line, or through the flooded fields of Holland, or up the steep mountain trails of Norway. Much is made of the fact that he has not crossed the English Channel. He was not there last September, but there are other Septembers. . . . AUBRY MILLER Alhambra, Calif...
...Alhambra, a Los Angeles suburb, is an ordinary U. S. town. Girl students in its high school, like those in many another, have to attend gymnasium classes and afterwards take a shower bath. Two months ago Alhambra's high-school girls moved into a new building, where they had to undress and shower in a big common shower room. This seemed all right to most of them. But not to tall, moon-faced Joan Aveline Lawrence, 16. After one horrid ordeal, Joan refused to shower again in public even if they flunked...
Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...