Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Square carried floats in honor of Leftist Spain, and every important building in Madrid displayed the red, five-pointed star of Communism with the hammer & sickle or a portrait of Our Sun at its centre. Madrid's mayor renamed part of the famed Gran Via as the "Avenue of the Soviet Union" and from Barcelona Leftist War Minister Indalecio Prieto cabled "Congratulations to the Red Army...
...many Stalin sunworshippers there may be in the U. S. could be guessed from a festive evening in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week which opened with the Star-Spangled Banner and the Internationale. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament's son Corliss, who describes himself as "not a Communist but a critical Communist sympathizer," was on hand with two Golden Books of American Friendship With The Soviet Union weighing 50 Ib. each. These contained the autographs of 100,000 U. S. citizens, were presented by critical Communist Sympathizer Lament to genial, likable Soviet Ambassador...
...island swimming championship of 1926. His father, Felix Locher, onetime resident of Tahiti, is now a Los Angeles insurance broker. Hall is a second cousin by marriage to Hurricane's coauthor, James Norman Hall. His well-distributed 190-lb. frame enabled him to win fame as a track star and ski-jumper when he left Tahiti to go to school at Neuchatel, Switzerland. He had been acting in a few plays in the down-at-heel Hollywood Playhouse when Director John Ford, a neighbor, noticing his build and good-looks, suggested he be tested for the role of Terangi...
Last week some 70 Moslems removed their shoes before climbing the stairs of their Brooklyn mosque, which until six years ago was a Tammany clubhouse, before that a Protestant church. Today the clean, shiny mosque looks like a Polish church, decorated in pink, yellow and blue, the Moslem star & crescent festooned with painted roses and daisies. This is natural since its swart, thick-accented Imam, Sam Rafilowich, son of an Imam in a Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane...
...Montreal last week, a combined team of Montreal Maroons & Canadiens and a team composed of star players from the other six teams in the National Hockey League flashed across the ice and began to belabor the puck. Quickly the All-Star team began to pile up a 6-to-2 lead. Then suddenly in the last four minutes of play, the Maroons-Canadiens clicked. Three swift goals followed, then the closing bell. Winners by a breathless margin, the All-Stars skated off the ice with a 6-to-5 victory. Thus was raised enough money, added to private subscriptions...