Word: horta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before next dawn the two-decked Clipper landed in the harbor at Horta, in the Azores. Delaved more than six hours while swamped Horta postal employes stamped 23,000 letters, she got to Lisbon 26½ hours after leaving the U. S. From there the Clipper made an easy hop to the end of the line at Marseille...
With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...
Cubism was an invention of the same mind nind that put roller skates on the Máagan tortoise. In 1909, in the village of Horta, near Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, Picasso painted a series of pictures of jumbled roofs and houses which suggested to him a whole new method. Liking nothing so Puch as new methods, on his return to Paris he went to work on it. Cezanne had patiently toiled for years to realize on canvas the solidity of air and landscape by means of delicately placed little patches and planes of color. Cubism put roller skates...
...quoting the Pope on p. 14 of TIME, May 2, can it be possible that the editors of TIME did not know that the quotation referred to the newly canonized saint, Salvador da Horta, and not to Francisco Franco? Is it accurate reporting to use that quotation, as you did, without explanation...
...Pope did bless Francisco Franco, but in these words: "We send from our hearts the apostolic blessing, propitiator of divine favors." At TIME'S Foreign News editor and checker, raised eyebrows for misapplying the Pope's words about St. Salvador da Horta to Generalissimo Franco; to TIME'S Roman Catholic readers, an apology...