Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...
...Torrid Zone" isn't as bad a picture as one would expect it to be. This still leaves it stranded somewhere in the Guatemalan jungles, but even a white man can put up with an hour or so down there. Ann Sheridan, of course, cooperates with the mosquitoes and the yellow fever to make the place unpleasant. There were some rather crude members of the audience at the Metropolitan who whistled at certain sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley...
Children of diplomats from 30 countries attended a Washington Christmas Party in their native costumes. Guest William O. Douglas Jr., son of the Supreme Court Justice, went in the dress of his native U. S., did his best to improve Pan American relations with Isabel Recinos, daughter of the Guatemalan Minister...