Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads in the Southwest led to old Santa Fe this week. There in the warm nights around the Palace of the Governors, the city was holding its 237-year-old fiesta, to celebrate the reconquest of the Indians by the Spanish. The fiesta would open, as it always does, with the burning of Zozobra, a 40-ft. effigy with a face of abysmal discontent (see cut). Zozobra, in Santa Fe folklore, represented Old Man Gloom...
...burst through the woods and into the open-air concert area, smashed the stage, set fire to the camp chairs lined up around it and burned the sheet music. In the surging tumult that followed, at least eight automobiles were overturned, scores of women ran screaming into the woods for safety. The veterans threw up hasty roadblock's but new arrivals piled into the fight until the battle grew to a slugging, shouting riot involving some thousand persons...
Next month Saunders will open a new store called Zizz-Buzz, on the late Keedoozle site in Memphis. Customers will "zizz right in and buzz right on out," shopping the same way as in a supermarket. Said Clarence Saunders: "I am really fed up with gadgets...regardless of how miraculous and wonderful they...
Slow Burn. In Westerly, R.I., Mrs. Carrie M. Crandall wrote to the city clerk of Worcester, Mass, with a complaint: "About 1889 or 1890 I fell into an open coal chute in front of the Hotel Pleasant...and I think the city should pay me something for my injuries...
...things he knew was that the Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently to shout "Great Heavens...