Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange misshapen houses of which Barcelona is so proud were close shuttered and dark last week. No lights twinkled in the sloping Plaza Catalonia. Under the plane trees the boulevards were silent except for the clop-clop of cavalry patrols making their rounds and the sudden roar of an armored...
...work guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.* Hundreds of Syndicalists were arrested. Enough pistols and knives were found on them to fill six hampers in the police station. Two army trucks were filled with prisoners, sent off to exile in West Africa. Four men were killed in the Plaza Espana when a mob attempted to rescue the caravan of exiles...
Public Enemy Fay may well have been in Idaho last autumn. He was at large, though under indictment for milk racketeering, of which he was acquitted in January. Last month Fay married Evelyn Crowell, actress; is now living at Carnegie Plaza apartments, Manhattan...
President Jean Barker of the Junior League of Louisville a year ago went to a Junior League meeting at the Hotel Plaza and arising "with knees as weak as water," was barely able to whisper her name. This year her timidity was gone: she said that she had been impressed "terrifically" with the "real happiness, sharing happiness" of The Groups...
...Manhattan. Commended in a telegram from Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York, last week's meeting was held in the swank Hotel Plaza. Present as guests were Suffragan Bishops Arthur Selden Lloyd and Charles Kendall Gilbert of the Diocese of New York, Dr. Dubois S. Norris of Manhattan's Central Presbyterian Church,f District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, Lawyer & Mrs. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Jay Schieffelin, Lawyer Samuel Scoville Jr. of Philadelphia, Mrs. Robert E. Speer and some 1,000 more. To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They...