Word: fiestas
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With their usual gentlemanly instincts rising supreme over all selfish motives and over indifference, the editors of the Crimson saw fit last night to speak for all of Harvard in inviting the waterless belles to a great liquid fiesta in Cambridge, city of cleanliness. We took it on ourselves to initiate the campaign to purify President Ham's soiled lassies...
Santa Fe's stucco buildings were hung with banners and streamers, decorated with huge, garish masks. The streets were noisy with drunken yells all through the night and far into the morning. New Mexico's City of the Holy Faith was busy last week celebrating La Fiesta, and in no mood to mourn...
...tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors celebrated Taxco's new luck in a brilliant three-day silver fiesta...
...silversmiths and in the plaza an allegory in fireworks, for which the town is famed. There was dancing in the plaza and horse racing for the ribbons of pretty girls. There was speechmaking and a competition among the town's silversmiths to place their ornaments on the fiesta's Queen of Silver...
...these activities were supervised by a committee of high local dignitaries-the Governor and Governor-elect of the State of Guerrero, representatives of the committee which preserves Taxco's colonial architecture, and the mayor of the city. But the honorary president of the fiesta was no Mexican. He was Taxco's First Citizen, good-looking William Philip Spratling of New Orleans, the man who brought Taxco its third period of prosperity...