Word: cubans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Philadelphia this winter the most amazing young musician has been Hilda Margot Betty Ros, a 10-year-old, olive-skinned Cuban, chosen by Conductor Leopold Stokowski to play the Mozart E Flat Concerto at his first Children's Concert. The Mozart concerto demands a sensitive hairline delicacy, particularly suited to young Margot's style of playing. With the praise she received, the Cuban prodigy could have gone on to make flashy headlines. Instead, she stuck to her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, lives in one room with her mother, father, two sisters. A subsidy from...
...Cuban friends then considered mildly mad. Cuban mothers cooped up their daughters in the Spanish tradition of despotic chaperonage tempered by matrimonial intrigue. And Mr. Frederick Snare was a rising U. S. contracting engineer who in Cuba specialized, as he still does, in "Piers and Warehouses, Power Plants, Bridges, Sugar Mills and Difficult Foundations...
...Davis, now President Roosevelt's famed Ambassador-at-Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves at the select, discreet and quiet Havana Country Club...
...pool in any Caribbean country and with one of the best layouts for daytime sport and moon-drenched romantic evenings in Latin America, "Father Snare" still busies himself with earnest works appropriate to one who last week celebrated his Silver Jubilee. Few caddies are so pious as his. Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd birthday he drove for the 18th hole...
...been handsome, elegant General Mario Garcia ("The Beard") Menocal. now 70, longtime leader of the Conservatives (now the National Democrats). La Barba is beloved of back-country farmers because he was President in the glorious "time of the fat cows," during "the dance of the millions," (1919-21). when Cuban sugar sold for 22?. Of the millions he grafted then he has almost nothing left; his superb estate has fallen to ruins. Decrepit, distinguished, an old-fashioned leader, he was too weak this time to stump the country...