Word: palme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heavy ropes were tied around their hands and feet and they were placed side by side. Then Chango's bodyguards beat them with royal palm switches. There were about 50 persons present. They danced, yelling and singing and clapping. Two curanderos [priests] cut the bodies apart with stone axes. We could see Chango smiling and satisfied as the curanderos sprinkled her image with blood. Then police appeared...
Married. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 24, president of his father's New York American; and Lorelle McCarver Moore, 24, actress; each for the second time; in Palm Beach...
...tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League's Francis Scott McBride: "The iron hand of the brewers is again in absolute control. . . ." ¶In Brooklyn the Kings County Retail Stationery & Newsdealers Association protested any state distributing plan which prohibited beer sales at stationery stores. ¶Manhattan's Fidelio...
Malcolm Shephard Knowles, of West Palm Beach, Florida...
Deep in thought, Professor Albert Einstein, who planned to leave the U. S. this week, strolled across the twilit campus of California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. He did not at once understand why the tall palm trees had begun to dance crazily or why the students had begun running out of their dormitories. In Los Angeles, where crowds going home to dinner had complained of the sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices...