Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
...Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's onetime mansion at Morristown, N. J. That was in 1920. Since then two of his pupils have branched off-Frederick S. Modern, 32, at Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino County, Calif. (1926) and James Winn Sherrill, 39, at La Jolla, bayside suburb of San Diego, Calif...
...studied in Paris, practiced in the U. S. for 30 years (newspaper cartoons, stained glass windows, smartchart layouts for Vogue, oils of every description). Large and athletic, with a greying red beard, a monkish bald spot, he likes modern French painting less than modern Mexican painting. When Mexican Diego Rivera's paintings (TIME, May 6) were first hung, seven people were shot. Says Robinson: "I'd be glad if someone stepped on a policeman's toe when I show mine...
There is also a copy owned by Don Diego Cruzat of Pamplona. Navarre, whose ancestors fought in the Holy Land. This gentleman superimposed his escutcheon above the author's autograph, evidently believing it to be of greater importance. He was permitted to add the border azure, three Jerusalem crosses, to his escutcheon...
...Burly" has no opprobrious connotation for TIME. Webster's New International Dictionary defines it: "Large or stout of body." TIME has applied "burly" to such strapping-strong persons as Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, Diego Rivera, Christopher Morley, Herbert Clark Hoover...