Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's coast about half way between Los Angeles and San Diego, was already well seasoned when Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Two Years Before the Mast) visited it last century, called it the loneliest and loveliest spot he had ever seen. Of the legends clustered about this historic shrine mellowest is the tale that for 160 years migrating swallows have arrived at the Mission each year on March 19 (St Joseph's Day), flown south again on Oct. 23 (St. John's Day). Last week on March 19, for the first time the swallows' arrival...
...Oedipus Rex in the ancient Roman amphitheatre near Tunisia, and finally a second grand Italian day & night naval review with plenty of Fascist fireworks. Much as onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II used to angle for Islam's applause, Dictator Mussolini is making it a point to visit every important Mohammedan shrine, presenting handsome candelabra to each of Islam's more sacred mosques in Libya...
...youngest full-fledged symphony conductor in the U. S. is chubby, red-headed James Kelley Guthrie, 22. Last week he mounted the conductor's stand and, before 5,000 people in the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, guided the new Hollywood Grand Opera Association through its first presentation, Aïda. Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early...
...July 24, 1922 Seattle witnessed a memorable wedding. A thousand spectators were present in Woodland Park Zoo. The city's Nile Temple of the Mystic Shrine had outdone itself in pageantry. In first, attended by a burro named Nazimova, marched Potentate, young male camel lately imported from Shanghai by Shriner Hugh Caldwell, onetime Mayor of Seattle. He was joined by Nile, a female camel also brought from Shanghai by the Shrine, attended by a pony named Marguerite. When Imperial Potentate James McCandless of Hawaii pronounced them camel & wife, Potentate turned, gravely munched Nile's topknot bouquet of sweet...
Last week in Woodland Park, having marched in many a Shrine parade and been ridden by 24,380 children. Potentate died, aged 15. Buried without ceremony, he was survived by Nile and by their husky nine-year-old son, Outer Guard...