Word: hernan
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...hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men-such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played and drew pictures of on the rock walls of Central American amphitheatres. Hernan Cortes took it back to Andalusia, whence it penetrated the Pyrenees and the people called it pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival"-jai alai (pronounced high...
...Press reports told that Mrs. Coolidge was taking swimming and diving 'lessons of Miss Mary Hernan in an ocean pool at White Court. An article appeared under Instructress Hernan's name in the Hearst Press: I met Mrs. Coolidge at Washington last winter and when I came to Swampscott this summer I met her again at the swimming pool at Little's Point, a private pool owned by the residents of that section of Swampscott. Only ten families are privileged to see Mrs. Coolidge while she is bathing...