Word: burros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs. Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a purely honorary candidacy...
There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
...iron-hot Funeral Range and Panamint Mountain until it seems that the whole world lies waiting for one final and consuming igneous blast. . . . Then, on the waltzing surface of distant alkali, a lake of sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California's subsea level inferno. One Perry Brite, Kerr County supervisor, stood on Dante's Lookout and saw that...