Word: fiestas
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...centre of celebration last week was Memphis' Beale Street, the garish Negro thoroughfare with its assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis whites were celebrating the annual Cotton Carnival, Beale Street was having its own fiesta, crowning its own king and queen, parading its own elaborate floats. The king was Undertaker Eddie Hayes. Queen was Ethyl Venson, pretty young wife of a Negro dentist. Highest honors throughout the fiesta were paid to a portly old Negro who had motored from his home in Manhattan for the occasion. A great hero...
...stage is "La Fiesta", with Spain in its name, its scenery, a singer, and some voluptuous Dancing Senoritas. Somehow Regis Toomy fits into this, and he is entertaining for a while. But Eddie Cantor's Mad Russian is as maddening as his boss, and makes one forget how agreeably short the vaudeville really...
...fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition dump, captures the Paraguayan ace, El Zorro, "the fox who flies like an eagle...
...twelve short stories in All The. Young Men deal with Indians, are cut precisely in the pattern of Author La Farge's novels (Sparks Fly Upward, Laughing Boy}. Tall Walker, handsome Apache hero of "Hard Winter," went about his prolonged singing and dancing during a fiesta with all the enjoyment and absorption of a business man playing golf. At Taos, a white woman, fascinated by literary legends of the noble redman, made him her lover. When winter came and his wife on the reservation had trouble with the sheep and a sick child, Tall Walker was glad...
Shouting into his mouthpiece, Il Duce wanted to know if his Geneva delegate remembered what day this was. It was the 20th anniversary of Italy's entry into the War. Throughout Italy since dawn it had been as fine a fiesta of flag waving as any Fascist could remember. From Naples 2,200 more troops had sailed for East Africa. There were parades and speeches in every provincial capital. In Rome gnarled little King Vittorio Emanuele presented new colors to 16 new regiments. Celebrating the ninth Fascist levy 150,000 young men throughout Italy joined the Fascist Militia...