Word: jacinto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Named for Erastus Smith (1787-1838), who, although deaf, commanded the scouts in General Sam Houston's army. "Deaf" Smith swam the flooded Buffalo Bayou, captured a courier with dispatches for Santa Anna and, on the morning of the battle of San Jacinto, burned the only bridge on which the Mexicans could retreat...
...scholarly, mystic man who led a life of celibate solitude, De Falla began work in 1928 on a great oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, based on the Catalonian epic poem, La Atlantida, by Jacinto Verdaguer. When De Falla's Atlantida was finished, he used to tell Argentine friends, he wanted the first performance to be in Buenos Aires...
...Palm Springs's biggest winter season began last week, Nellie Coffman celebrated her 80th birthday by riding out to a picnic at the base of towering (10,831 ft.) Mount San Jacinto. There she got 82 birthday cakes ("two to grow on") from friends, some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...
...Nellie had wanted to settle there since 1897, when, recovering from pneumonia, she spent a summer at a rest camp high up on San Jacinto. The camp owner had pointed to the scrub-covered desert below and said: "There's the place to spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...