Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
...this week's (TIME, Aug. 20) account of Reconstructor McAdoo's prancing at the recent Santa Barbara fiesta, the word "mare" was used in description of Mr. McAdoo's mount If the newsgatherer who wrote the story will look closely at the picture accompanying the write-up he will see that he should have used "stallion"' or gelding" (as the case...
...Finlandia", Symplionic Poem Sihelius "California", Tone Poem, Suggested by Scenes at the Fiesta in Santa Barbara (1927) Converse Victory Dance of the first Inhabitants--Spanish Padres and Explorers--The March of Civilization--Land of Poco Timepo--Invasion of the Gringos--Midnight at "ElPaseo" 1927 "Espana" Chubrier Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni "Molly on the Shore" Grainger "Pomp and Circumatance" Elgar
Amid pink chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern, and to the melodious murmuring of the Marine Band Orchestra, the Cabinet et ux. dined at the White House. It was the traditional fiesta which Presidents always give their hardworking Secretaries after the latter have spent a busy season preparing reports, and before the hurly-burly of a Congressional session begins...
Came luncheon, provided on the scale of a local fiesta. Peasants and the local gentry mingled. President Calles, beamingly in his element, led hearty singing of mellow Spanish songs. What did the U. S. guests think...