Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tidy little mountain capital of San José it was fiesta time. The coffee had been harvested, the price was good, and everybody had some money. Thousands of ticos (Costa Ricans) jammed the broad green of the capital's Plaza Gonzáles Viquez for the annual four-day "Civic Festival...
Last week, after giant firecrackers had been exploded and 40 selected bulls had been paraded through San José's main streets, the first of the corridas was held in the huge, hexagonal bull ring set up in the plaza. In the stands sat beauty queens from neighboring countries, one of whom would be chosen Miss Central America this week...
...shouted blues for more than 30 years, she is as legendary a name to pub crawlers as Artist Thomas Hart Benton. Her black lace gowns, glistening bangs and the artificial flowers in her hair are as familiar to old-style jazz fans as the war memorial in Union Station Plaza. Visiting jazz greats, like Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Mildred Bailey and Bob Zerke, always seek her out when they hit town...
Many a money-heavy citizen would spend the holidays in jammed, glittering Florida resorts. To Cartoonist Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, Christmas in Miami Beach would be sun-kissed and expensive. He would sleep late in his Roney Plaza room, golf at the swank La Gorce Country Club, be host at an eggnog party at the Lord Tarleton Hotel. In the evening he would invite a crowd of cronies to a dinner party at the Copacabana Club...
...government-organized demonstrations against the U.N. were impressive. In Madrid (see cut) 100,000 herded into the Plaza de Oriente to hear Franco. In Barcelona more than 100,000 marched down the Paseo de Gracia in the icy winter sunshine. The raised-arm salute was used only once (it has been replaced by waving white handkerchiefs). But the barked "Franco, Franco, Franco!" is still used with almost hypnotic effect. Signs carried included one showing a man preparing to lower his trousers and a dog lifting his leg over the letters "U.N.O...