Word: lopezes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Displeased by a decision against him, Eduardo Lopez, curly-haired Mexican fencer, flung his sword into the air. It bounced over the guard rail, injured the hand of a small boy. Dismayed, Fencer Lopez apologized, was disqualified. In the fencing team championships France won the foils and epee, Hungary the sabre...
CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...
...Presbyterian last fortnight wrote a Mrs. Harry Strachan, telling of missioneering in Latin America: "This new venture needs very special prayer. The [Catholic] priests have sent down to Santa Cruz, where Messrs. Young and Lopez have been working since the end of December, four nuns who are copying exactly our own methods of work. . . . This counter-propaganda will keep many souls out of the Kingdom of Christ. Only prayer can avail...
...Holtz Revue. That impertinent comedian Lou Holtz has assembled two hours of first-rate vaudeville. Continuity lies in the fact that Mr. Holtz introduces the numbers. His talent includes Clark & McCullough, Vincent Lopez's orchestra and a concluding scene which depicts Paul Revere's ride with a view of two lights shining from a miniature church steeple and a real horse galloping on a treadmill...
Divorced. Joe Cook (Joseph Lytell Cook, born Joseph Lopez), stage and cinema funnyman; from Mrs. Beatrice Helen Reynolds Cook, onetime vaudeville actress; secretly, last month; in Newark, N. J. Named: Edward Mewing, his neighbor at Lake Hopatcong...