Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forest, E. P. Swenson, Charles H. Seger, Mortimer L. Schiff, James S. Alexander, Gordon M. Buck and Charles A. Peabody, all of Manhattan; Samuel Rea of Philadelphia and Paul Shoup 28 of San Francisco. It was incorporated in 1920 and now works extensive fields in California and in the Southwest...
...foreign colony lives in the southwest section of the city, a newly constructed quarter with fine homes of practically U. S. conveniences and comforts. Mexicans of the wealthy and of the ruling classes live in solidly built, fortress-like homes, of two stories for the most part. Until one has finally been admitted to the intimacies of such a home, one is apt to consider its life as morose, monotonous. But later one learns of the gayety and kindliness and sanity that pass through the richly furnished rooms...
Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like...
...conclusion, may we ask, why the article? What did Douglas or the great Southwest ever do to YOU or yours? Why should YOU object to Hal Chase, Chick Gandil or Buck Weaver making an honest living in the only manner that their education permits...
Automobile owners with no special passes will be admitted to parkway space within the enclosure through gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field...