Word: luz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe placed five in the group. Ruth Crozier of Cambridge and Nancy Lane of Belmont received bachelor of arts degrees at the Annex. Lucy Axelbank of New York City, who won the grant for study in Mexico; Ruth Fitzmayer of Louisville, Kentucky; and Luz Torruellos of San Juan, Puerto Rico, completed their masters degrees at the 'Cliffe Graduate School...
...does each year at the Spring Festivals, a beauty queen last week took up her reign in Mexico City. Titian-haired Luz del Carmen ("Moy") Otero rode into the bullfight ring at the head of a 16-car cavalcade, presided at horse races, and went to a ball every night. Moy had a fine time and so did her father, suave General Ignacio Otero, commandant of the First Military Zone. Moy owed it all to Daddy...
This was José de la Luz Vegas' big moment-made keener by the Holy Week of silence his bells had just ended. José has been a happy man from the day when the cathedral priests, noticing how he hung around the towers, appointed him chief bellringer. He promptly quit his obnoxious little job as a printer and moved into a tiny stone room high up in the cathedral's east tower. There he installed a little stove, a rickety brass bed, an altar decorated with winged cherubs. There he has lived ever since, among the pigeons...
...Petropolis the fabulous, $13,000,000 Quitandinha ("little fruit stand"), most advertised spa and hotel in South America, faced failure. Suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's gambling king and owner of the place, walked in on Treasury Minister Carlos Luz and announced: "Well, I am giving you Quitandinha...
...Jean-de-Luz trouble awaits the trio-and the play. Nazis make up the reception committee, and it requires a lot of trite, melodramatic hokum to get past the receiving line. After that, the colonel "reforms" and practically falls in love with Jacobowsky; and the two escape-across a sea of soupy sentiment-to England...