Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave up his original act, purchased a hussar jacket and a whip and toured South America, sticking his head into lions' mouths twice daily. But Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse, managers searched for a successor. Last week the rococo façade of Buenos Aires' Cirque Cordoba billed another "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." The new Blackamon, who had been one of the original Living Corpse's assistants, omitted his former master's self perforations last week, but successfully went into his trance, was buried in his glass-fronted coffin. Three hours later the sand...
Since the War, U. S. financial physicians have gone to the far corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...
...Fourth largest cathedral in the world. It is exceeded in size by only St. Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordoba, the Santa Maria de la Sede in Seville...
...following program is scheduled for tonight's Pops: March Schubert-Casella Overture to "Oberon" Weber Ballet Suite from "Cephalus and Procris" Gretry-Mottl "The Flying Dutehman," Overture Wagner Spanish Dances Moskowski Cordoba Albeniz-Jacchia Three Dances form "The Three Cornered Hat" De Falla "Espana." Rhapsody Chabrier Indian War Dance Skilton Prelude to "Khovantchina" Moussorgsky Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
...another Spaniard, Cordoba, touched the east coast of Yucatan, near Cape Catoche and Mujeres Island and saw "a large town standing back from the coast about two leagues . . .and . . idols. . .nearly all of them with figures of tall women, so that we called the place the Punta de Mugeres" (Women's Point). Juan de Grijalva a year later sailed from Cuba to the Island of Cozumel. After claiming that land for his sovereign with the usual blithe arrogance of his age, Grijalva crossed to the visible eastern shore of Yucatan, where his historian describes sighting "three large towns separated from...