Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen during the cruise to serve as president of the Association through next year's congress in Rio de Janeiro was shy, modest Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia, famed for removing growths and foreign bodies from throat, windpipe, gullet, lung. At 68 he is still active in the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic with which Temple University lured him away from University of Pennsylvania...
...smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor was unable to appear. In desperation the players remembered that Toscanini, then 19, seemed to know everything by heart. He had no dress coat. But the players hustled him into one, thrust a baton into his hand and boosted him on the conductor...
...Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony of Rio de Oro south of Morocco. "I am a political exile from French Morocco," said he. "I ask for your protection. I am the Blue Sultan." In Madrid Spain's Premier Alejandro Lerroux told the good news. For the nth time the French command announced that "'the back...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
Before an enthusiastic audience of 500 people, Leverett House last night presented its play, "Rio Grande" or "Trouble on the Mexican Border." Some capable actors performed magnificently in this "startling and instructive moral drama...