Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a graceful wave of his hand President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno last week bade his people celebrate Martes de carnes-tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people...
...Washington remains a great man, for what he has become, he is a magnificent tradition. But he no longer is of value to Americans, beyond the comfortable knowledge that once in the old days there were giants upon the earth. It is enough for the present to wave flags, to beat drums, to construct tales of a hatchet and a cherry tree. The sober mind, the common sense, the courageous, generous spirit lie with, and are of, an age that is past...
...summary: HARVARD ARLINGTON Gallagher, Stone, N. Ware, I.n. r.w., Mce Wadsworth, Kirkland, e. e., Austin Brown, Summers, Braggietti, r.w. l.w., White R. Gleason, Clapp, l.d. l.d., A. Lane Choate, F. Gleason, r.d. r.d., P. Lane V. Wave, g. g., Saboits...
...near traveled to Manhattan to gather in the Waldorf-Astoria for the largest dinner they or the hotel had ever given. It was the fourth annual "Round-the-World-Columbia Night." broadcast this time over 81 U. S. stations and to the rest of the world over two short-wave stations. Similar dinners were also taking place in Paris, London, Berlin, Geneva, Mexico City, Havana, Moscow, Manila. Aboard the 5. 5. Resolute off Bombay, and the S. S. Reliance in the West Indies were more dining Columbians. In Shanghai, Columbia men were determined not to let Japanese shot & shell spoil...
...Porto Ricans . . . are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere. What the island needs is not public health work but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the population. It might then be livable. I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing...