Word: piedras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three grizzled prospectors - Arrin Thorpe of the U. S., Joanes Van Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold...
...held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...
...call themselves. "We dance because we like to. We thought of calling ourselves cavaliers. . . . In Paris now they're calling dancers like us 'dancing doctors.' And, of course, they have gigolos over there, but we are not gigolos." (No tipping is allowed.) Said Dancer Ernesto Piedra, whose father General Manuel Piedra is Cuba's minister to China: "I think we should call ourselves 'associates of the dance...