Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name at that time was not Menuhin. He adopted this Hebrew name to signify the peacefulness which his sensitive spirit found in the land of his forefathers, Palestine. His wife was a native Palestinian Jewish girl. They married, emigrated to the U. S. and made their home in San Francisco...
...Francisco tongues wagged when word went out that Maria Jeritza would arrive next September with the Salome of Richard Strauss, dance there for the first time in the U. S. her version of the Seven Veils. The echo spread as far as Manhattan. Perhaps the Metropolitan would relent now, let Salome into her own repertoire. She is, according to Jeritza, not a bad girl, just a little wild. But the Metropolitan board, it seems, refuses to be convinced, stays now as it has been for the past 20 years, firmly anti-Salometic...
...almost as strong as reverence for God in California, is the rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles could not overlook it when a San Francisco man-Professor-Emeritus Bailey Willis of Stanford University, President of the Geological Society of America -freely predicted some time ago that the next mighty upheaval of the Pacific Coast would come in Southern California. As a result of that prediction, insurance rates in Los Angeles skyrocketed 200 to 2,200%. The premium of the Union Bank and Trust Co.'s building, for example, went from...
...historic facts of Southern California. We, of Southern California, where engineering skill has long been at its highest, knew that no such movements had occurred here within the recollection of man. If so, our aqueduct across the San Andreas rift would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they would have been reflected in the astronomic computations from Mt. Wilson, in our land surveys, or by dis placements along our many highways and railways which cross fault lines...
Married. Mrs. Marie Hilgartner, daughter of Madame Schumann-Heink; to Dr. Charles M. Fox, of San Diego, Calif.; in San Francisco...