Word: merida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathizers in the U. S. and Latin America still contribute to Patriot Sandino's support, enable him to occupy the whole top floor of the only modern hotel in Merida, Yucatan. All day the hotel patio teems with sombre-eyed young men carrying pistols, brooding fresh revolt. At night they sleep dormitory fashion around their commander. Asked for an interview, the top-floor patriot sent out a brief message...
...tale of two city-states, Tuluum and Chichen-Itza, whose kings warred while a Tuluum prince loved a Chichen princess-was contrived by Don Luis Rosado Vega, Yucatan troubadour, once jailed for translating the Mexican constitution into Indian, now director of the Museum of History and Archaeology in Merida...
...Venezuela, Eugene Manners, oil scout, "matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning . . . and unscrupulous Dutch competitors." The heroine is "Sola Merida . . . whose flamelike beauty had so ill a setting in a foul cafe." Flamelike Sola appears at first as the daughter of Peon Pacheco. In the last chapter she is revealed as the entirely legitimate daughter and heiress of the aristocratic Toros...
...Peabody Museum is awaiting the arrival tomorrow of 100 skeletons, shipped from Merida, the capital city of Yucatan, by permission of the Mexican Government, in the interests of a study of race mixtures being conducted by the authropology department of the Museum...
...Williams, who recently returned from an anthropological expedition in Mexico obtained the consent of the authorities to export the skeletons, and selected the specimens being forwarded to the University from the grave yards of Merida. The purpose of procuring the skeletons it to supplement measurements taken among the natives during the recent expedition, according to Dr. Williams...