Word: fiestas
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...from the unfortunate Baltimore affair.* U.S. sailors and marines, well briefed on good-neighborly conduct, went over big with Chileans at last week's presidential inauguration. At outdoor parties and at the huge fiesta in Santiago's Plaza Bulnes, sailors smiled at señoritas. In Valparaiso, a U.S. gob took up a blind beggar's guitar, played it to a huge audience for two hours, turned over a mendicant's fortune to the beggar...
...hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
...might be expected, the regiomontanos were too busy to bother much about their week-long celebration. Elsewhere in Mexico, the slightest excuse for a fiesta would have closed the town, jammed the streets with pavement dancers and flavored-ice vendors, filled the air with shots and shouts. In Monterrey moderate crowds were moderately enthusiastic, a total of two small boys climbed the rooftops to watch the fiesta-day parade...
...Mindanao, the unmanageable Moros ignore Manila, as usual. Without forceful persuasion, perhaps 80% of the population could never be made to dream of anything but siesta, fiesta and sunsets...
Mexico was full of fiesta for Sunday's presidential election. Never before had the Federal Government registered voters for an election, never before had so many planned to vote. Never had the prospect of an honest election been so real...