Word: manzanillo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alicia snuggled on a chaise-longue reading. . . . They stayed at Havana four days. A "norther" swept across the bay. nearly bumped a bulky launch against the Liberty. The crew watched a jai alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where much-kissed Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson sank the Merrimac...
...notorious bandit and rebel "El Catorce" ("No. 14") attacked with 800 followers, last week, a garrison of 30 federal troops and 20 constabulary, at the seaport of Manzanillo. After 14 hours of siege and sniping, 82 of the followers of "No. 14" had been killed, as well as 29 of the Garrison...