Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he has a mistaken idea because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...
Roving the seas, three battle cruisers (San Francisco, Tuscaloosa, and Quincy) steamed southward to round Cape Horn and the South Americas, where Franklin Roosevelt proposes if need be to meet "force with force." Laid up for treatment, the U.S.S. West Virginia was anchored off Brooklyn Navy Yard, where naval mechanics replaced a 16-inch gun which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries...
Finicky collegians started more appetizing games. At San Jose (Calif.) State College, for example, Jack Baldwin wagered he could catch and kiss 20 co-eds in 30 minutes, fell six short. Soon San Francisco State College's Marshall Blum claimed a record: 40 kisses in five minutes. At New York University Co-ed Dorothy McDonald kissed 36 boys in four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror...
...oarsmen: a three-mile race in 14 min., 48.4 sec.; defeating the University of Washington, their arch rivals, by seven lengths and bettering the course record by 5½ sec.; in the annual West Coast regatta that opens the U. S. rowing season; on the Oakland Estuary in San Francisco Bay. It was their first victory over Washington since...
Popular, petite debutante daughter of a wealthy Mississippi plantation owner, Anne Walter annoyed her mother by studying medicine in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Then she went to China as substitute head of the Women's Hospital in Soochow, a "city of unmentionable sights and indescribable smells." Her energy got her the nickname "Small Typhoon." Buddhist priests spread the rumor that she would gouge out patients' eyes and mix them with copper to make silver. The sick frequently preferred "the death road" by hanging themselves rather than try her medicine...