Word: tehuantepec
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night...
Pacific Coast line of seismicity, which extends at least 8,000 miles from the Arctic circle to Tehuantepec...
...earth's crust, uncomfortable in other places, twitched some more. It twitched under Maine for the twelfth time in two years, causing little damage. It twitched in Mexico, terrifying peons in Tehuantepec, who, instead of realizing that a mild earthquake now and then is really a good thing for mankind as it safeguards against catastrophic shocks, moved sullenly toward the hills muttering about the return of Quetzalcoatl, the bird-serpent, and other ancient gods. . . . Also, the earth twitched sharply last week in Greece, in Chile...
Only slightly less ignorant than the peons of Tehuantepec were folk and newspapers that talked about the Equinox in connection with these earthquakes; or with a howling hurricane that last week swept Louisiana, torrential rains that flooded Illinois, Iowa, Missouri; with a tornado in Nebraska and Kansas; with the worst typhoon of years in Japan (100 killed); and other portents of the week. In the first place, it was not yet the Equinox, which comes Sept. 21-25, when the earth reaches a tilt in the heavens such that the plane of its equator passes through the sun, making...
Mexico. From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto. It was said that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was virtually covered with the insects. Although the Department of Agriculture was busy fighting the plague by issuing instructions to farmers, who waged an energetic war upon the hoppers, the latter were reported to be getting the better of the encounters...