Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...discussing whether there were any pure races, whether the "Aryan race" was superior to others. Soon students formed a Friends & Neighbors Club, cleaned two vacant stores next to the school as headquarters, held meetings and dances, started classes for their parents, read stories to neighborhood tots, staged an international fiesta. They also campaigned for a government low-cost housing project for their neighborhood and a new school building, recently achieved both...
...Lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins; but they firmly believe that Judy O'Grady's skin is prettier. On this assumption some of Judy's champions last week held a competition for "Miss Cafeteria Society." The place was Manhattan's Fiesta Danceteria, where subway society can get supper on a tray for 60? dance all night for nothing to Manhattan's better swing bands. Fiesta's patrons flocked to compete: stenographers, sales girls, telephone operators, factory girls from Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx, in $2.98 dresses, 98162; hats...
...uncritical of his distinguished predecessor as the predecessor was of Spain is Historian Claude Gernade Bowers (Jefferson and Hamilton), another writing diplomat, who represented the U. S. in Spain from 1933 to 1939. One of the first public functions Ambassador Bowers attended was a three-day fiesta in Granada in honor of Irving. For his own diversion, Ambassador Bowers later followed the trail of Irving's Spanish travels, dug into embassy archives and the files of the Ministry of State to compose a sedately romantic record of a perennially romantic American...
...mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...