Word: santas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came and they beat upon the earth, which, though it is founded as on a rock, happened to shake violently at the same moment. As if shrugging off the effects of a long, hard winter, the earth twitched, with varying degrees of violence: 1) in a small section around Santa Barbara, Calif, (where last year, to a day, destructive temblors came); 2) over a larger section in the Mediterranean basin, from Italy to Crete and Egypt; 3) and nearer the Equator, at Singapore and in Sumatra. More than 200 humans perished; some 200 Sumatrans; many an Egyptian. At Santa Barbara...
...dares turn savagely upon its boosters crying to them: "O foolish Philistines!" There is such a city, an ancient city founded when the Indians still hunted over Murray Hill, and Boston Common was indistinguishable from the wilderness around. The breath of the golden century of Spain clings to Santa Fe's narrow streets, walled gardens, soft cathedral chimes. Soft Santa Fe has not, as they would say in Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still an old Spanish town. Its population is only 7,500 including some progressive citizens. Recently its Chamber...
Last week Mary Austin, famed artistic Santa Fe resident, protested in the New Republic against the despoilers of her background, said that such cultural colonies belonged to the era of William Jennings Bryan. Many readers agreed that Chautauquas like tweeds are excellent in an appropriate setting, but fail to harmonize with old Spanish lace...
...visit the huge Veta Madre (Mother Vein) where the work shaft is 1,700 ft. deep and 30 in diameter through solid rock. He will see the magnificent Cathedral of Chihuahua, built in the 18th Century by two escaped convicts who, having stumbled upon the mines now called for Santa Eulalia, promised the edifice to a priest if he would intercede for them with the Government...
Engaged. Marcia Ann Gavit, Albany heiress of Anthony N. Brady; niece of John Palmer Gavit, famed writer of journalistic articles on education; to Charles Hervey Jackson Jr., grandnephew of one-time U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Both now live in Santa Barbara, Calif., where Miss Gavit is a schoolgirl...