Word: fiestas
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...career, and somewhat overcome by the exuberance of adolescence, for the club was in its twentieth year, H. D. C. produced Michael Gold's "Fiesta," a really excellent tale of Mexican provincial life. In spite of the unusual acclaim it received in Cambridge, the censors declared the play unfit for presentation in Boston, and the show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic critics had considered...
There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
...Bilbao, San Sebastian, with tourists from St. Jean-de-Luz, Biarritz and Paris. Peasants from miles around sleep in wagons, in the fields, or do not sleep at all. For four days from 6 a. m. until long after midnight sleep is next to impossible while Pamplona celebrates the Fiesta of San Fermín, its patron saint. There are bullfights, street dancing, parades of huge grotesque figures, much drinking of strong Spanish wine. But by far the most exciting ceremony-one which takes place only at Pamplona-is the encierro (driving of the bulls...
Soon after dawn the first day of the fiesta this week, hundreds of youths gathered at the edge of town near the railroad station. Men climbed upon six big cages, reached down and opened them. Out walked six bulls, blinking in the sunlight. They were strong, lithe, handsome, each branded with the mark of Don Ernesto Blanco. They looked around, uncertain what to do, until from the crowd of youths came a yell: "Hah! Hah! . . . Toro!" The bulls lowered their heads, charged the crowd. The crowd took to its heels, the bulls stampeding in pursuit...
...Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed Archbishop Diaz saw two brilliants tumble to the altar. Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went...