Word: pinewoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where are the curly-fused cannon crackers of yesteryear-so thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...communal wingding was staged solely to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the introduction to Tehuantepec of La Sandunga, originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...
...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...