Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed...
Relief trains rushing to aid the stricken Mendoza vintners encountered great fissures in the earth, filled with spouting, boiling water...
...days out, the complete Hoover itinerary was announced (see Map, p. 18) -Amapala (Honduras), La Union (Salvador), Corinto (Nicaragua), Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Callao and Lima (Peru), Valparaiso, Santiago and Los Andes (Chile), Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uraguay), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Havana, perhaps Mexico, perhaps Texas, to Florida...
Died. Maria Guerrero de Diaz de Mendoza, famed star of Spanish and South American stages, sometimes called "the Sarah Bernhardt of Spain," in Madrid...
...most innocently poisonous characterizations ever done. Some of her others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...