Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard Oil were careful to grow beards and assume...
...Hollywood-by-the-Sea, just north of Miami, Fla., stands an $800,000 Spanish stucco hotel. Most of the time it sleeps silently in the sun. But one morning this week a bugle call shook it awake. Out of its rooms rushed some 600 smartly uniformed boys. They lined up for breakfast formation, began the winter term of the Riverside Military Academy...