Word: santo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sullen, the sun rose through oppressive yellow haze over Santo Domingo. Houses remained shuttered, shops did not open, little knots of serious, worried people met on street corners, in the tin roofed ramshackle market. Two flags hung limply on the signal mast of Fort Ozama's 16th century "Homage Tower." There was not enough breeze to spread them from the mast but every Dominican knew what they were: one above the other, two little red flags with square black centres, the most dreadful signal of the tropics, hurricane jacks...
John Henry Wigmore, Dean of the Northwestern University law faculty. Santo Domingo...
Juan Read, octogenarian Dominican Republic lumber tycoon, retired diplomat, left his Santo Domingo home hurriedly for treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady...
...month in Congressional stipends ("Dominicans are poor, therefore all must live the same") ; 4) All civilians will be disarmed "whether my friends or Velasquez's"; 5) "if possible" a national military academy similar to West Point, with U. S. Army instructors, will be founded in Santo Domingo...
...bones of Columbus, originally interred at Seville, were removed to Santo Domingo, thence to Havana, finally in 1899 were returned to Seville, the irons having been lost meanwhile...