Word: fiestas
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Innkeeper Malandrini, Lawyer Belotti or dour Priest Don Taddeo. The whole town turned itself into a fiesta, mass meeting, audience, riot. Chorus-girls were billeted everywhere; their sleepless generosity played hob with respectable burghers, set a fad that was followed even by hitherto respectable housewives...
...Manhattan socialite whose past is rife with youthful follies. Then Miss Moran attempts to extricate her fiance from the claims of his mercenary mistress (Miss Dale). It is about this time (Act II) that the play begins to take life. At the paramour's apartment an impromptu fiesta takes place, during which a very battered young pugilist wanders around wanting to "take a sock" at someone. "Just one sock!" he pleads. And then there is an unfortunate suicide. Miss Moran is distressed at what her father's constituency may think. Mr. Kerr is distressed at what his family...
Someone yelled "Counter revolution!" In a half-second the marching revolutionary troops sprang into action. Unlimbering their guns they raked the wedding fiesta, then, loyal to Provisional President Uriburu ("Idol of the Army"), they dashed for the nearby Plaza de Mayo (Government Square), eager to shoot up counter-revolutionaries who must be storming the Casa Rosada ("Pink House:" executive mansion...
...Harvard tradition which passed last week was Beck Hall, oldtime privately owned dormitory, which was sold. Among its onetime inmates: Theodore Roosevelt, John Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, James Alexander Stillman. Perennial Cambridge springtime fiesta was the "Beck Hall Spread." In more recent years the building was cared for by a onetime barkeep, famed for his preparation of whiskey sours...
...Communism. Onetime editorial assistant to Max Eastman of the late great Masses, three years ago he became editor of the only artistic-radical magazine left in the U. S., the New Masses, in which Jews Without Money appeared serially. He has had two plays produced: Hoboken Blues, Fiesta. Says he: "Both were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre supported by Capitalist Otto H. Kahn. Last February the New Playwrights gave a dinner, invited Maecenas Kahn, made many speeches attacking capitalism, prophesying the triumph of the workers. Banker Kahn...