Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among U. S. literary groups, the writers who have settled in New Mexico have a reputation for being the most humorless of the lot. But in Witter Bynner New Mexico can claim at least one poet who knows and appreciates a joke, and who has the distinction of being the author of a major literary hoax. In 1916 when U. S. excitement over free verse, imagism, vorticism, and other strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions...
...which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake-City. Mexico had again sent north its Monte Alban Mayan treasures. But the real fun was, as usual, to be had on the Midway...
...time passed and train service came to be taken for granted, railroad advertising concerned itself largely with the tourist trade. Pictures of Nature's grandeur, of Yellowstone geysers, California trout fishermen, New Mexico Indians, Florida bathing girls, New England sailboats, loomed large in railroad copy. "Vacationland" became a copywriter's cliché. There were exceptions in the form of notable institutional campaigns. Lackawanna invented "Phoebe Snow," the girl who traveled "The Road of Anthracite" without getting dirty. Pennsylvania Railroad told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures...
...there are times when the luminous patios of the Agua Caliente Hotel, which are used for all exteriors, give the picture the air of an animated resort poster, this impression is corrected by an imperfectly subdued tendency to affront Mexico by portraying it as a country whose people understand English only when they are bribed and whose music exists solely to goad listeners into buying silence. In Caliente is dull only in its more expensive moments. Even Busby Berkeley could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing...
Near Miacatlan on a tour of Mexico with his fiancée, Ellen Mary Byron Gloor of Manhattan, Otto Kym came upon Miss Gloor struggling in the arms of their native chauffeur, Aloises Lopez. Kym focused his movie camera, shot the scene, turned Lopez and the film over to police...