Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mecca, Calif., Caroline Faber sued Paramount Pictures, Inc. for $50,000. Reason: when she accepted a manager's invitation to watch a Paramount company working on Her Jungle Love, a chimpanzee named Jiggs (since dead) embraced her, bit her backside...
Palestine to the Arabs in 1915, when they persuaded Sherif Hussein of Mecca to aid them against the Turks; 2) the Arabs already occupied Palestine, and the only way a Jewish State could be set up was by "forcibly displacing the Arabs...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
Fifty years ago, before cockfights became the target for reformers, New Or-leans-and its interstate mains in the old Spanish pit-was the mecca for cocking fans. Today the No. 1 event is the $8,000, four-day Orlando Tournament, held the last week in January. The tournament is open to any reputable cocker who thinks his batch of birds are worth risking the $500 entrance fee. Only 16 entries are accepted, however, the 16 owners each entering 15 cocks-one for each of the 15 regulation weight divisions ranging, in two-ounce jumps, from...
...Mecca." Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory is not only unique in England; it has no parallel in the world. To create its like, it would be necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics...