Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gettysburg Academy in Pennsylvania, two short, swart Mexican youths tumble out of their beds and then proceed to make them. They agree with President Hoover that their father is the one and only President-Elect of Mexico. They are studious Guillermo Rubio, 18, and athletic Fernando...
...like football," grins Fernando, "I am of the what-you-call scrubs. It is much exercise...
Meanwhile in Brussels' central police station detectives were learning things from the unsuccessful assassin. Speaking with difficulty through a broken jaw which he had acquired en route, the young man said that his name was Fernando di Rosa originally of Milan, Italy. An avowed antiFascist, di Rosa escaped from Italy over a year ago, crossing the French frontier on skis at night. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, only leaving his little room in the Latin Quarter, to attend meetings of the Matteoti Club, a minor anti-Fascist secret society. It was at a meeting of this...
...farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif...
...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...