Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CALIFORNIA: Ray E. Donner, Los Angeles; Richard W. Elliott, Jr., Mecca; Philip S. Flint, San Diego...
Zamzam is the name of a sacred well in Mecca. In 1933 an Egyptian shipping company bought the 24-year-old, 8,229-ton British passenger steamer British Exhibitor, renamed her Zamzam, redesigned one of her holds into a mosque with accommodations for 600, and set her to carrying Mohammedan pilgrims from Suez to Jidda, the port of Mecca...
...Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily in the luxurious Andalusia Palace Hotel, onetime Mecca of wealthy tourists who used to pack-jam Seville each year for Easter. Madame Lupescu continued to stroll in the gardens with her four dogs while Carol showed the same roving eye as ever for beauteous female barflies. No longer a great romance but the tie-up of a weak...
...There, sickly, shy and elflike, she presided over a dinner table whose steady boarders were Auden, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (now back in England for military service), British Composer Benjamin Britten, Wisconsin-raised George Davis (literary editor of Harper's Bazaar). The old brownstone became a shabby Mecca for their friends. Russian Painter Pavel Tchelitchew decorated its walls, symphonies were composed at its piano, through it trooped painters, writers, musicians and such unclassifiable artists as Gypsy Rose...
...Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schonberg. More than three years ago, Composer Blitzstein's opera about a steel strike, The Cradle Will Rock, was given a bleak but exciting Manhattan production, with the composer pounding a piano for lack of orchestral accompaniment. Last Sunday night, in Manhattan's Mecca Auditorium, another bleak Blitzstein opera had its opening, with the composer at the piano. No For An Answer, originally conceived as a $30,000 production, was rushed into view because, said Marc Blitzstein, "it's later than we think and it has something to say that I want said...