Word: almada
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...miles southeast of Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes and Manuel Serra, former head of the Catholic youth movement...
...thank you gentlemen," said loyal Almada, "but I cannot accept. Behold in me now a true convert to Prohibition...
College boys frequently swear off smoking and drinking for indefinite periods, invent elaborate forfeits for backsliding. Generals of Armies, Presidents of Republics are seldom so ingenuous. Not so President of Mexico Emilio Fortes Gil and General Pedro J. Almada, Chief of Military Operations in the State of Puebla...
...banquet tendered President Fortes Gil in Puebla City last August upon the conclusion of the last revolution, the Chief Executive, who has high plans for making Mexico temperate, scanned the liberal wine list, then suggested to General Almada that they both swear off tobacco and liquor, that the first to fumar (smoke) should pay the winner 100 silver pesos ($50), the first to beber (drink) should pay 200 silver pesos ($100). General Almada manfully agreed...
Last week the citizens of Puebla tendered General Almada another banquet. Thoughtful businessmen remembered the Almada pledge, took up a collection...