Word: avenida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American hopeful's ferocity. In that ghostly company of world's heavyweight championship contenders Campolo takes a place not more than two removes from Germany's potent Max Schmeling. About 20,000 saw the fight in Brooklyn. In Buenos Aires 50,000 volatile Latins lined the Avenida de Mayo reading round by round results flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull...
...Senhora Washington Luis Pereira de Souza† had come into Rio from the summer capital at Petropolis in time to dash up to the gangplank amid a fanfare of trumpets. Also present were Vice President Mello Vianna and many a Senator and Deputy. Bright-uniformed guards lined the Avenida Rio Branco up which the procession passed. Confetti and ticker-tape snowed down à la the U. S. The crowd was estimated at the conventional...
ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
Twelve years ago, when President Irigoyen was inaugurated for his first term (1916-22), the crowd burst through police ranks, unhitched the horses of the presidential carriage, and drew it themselves slowly down the Avenida de Mayo to Government House. Then Dr. Irigoyen beamed with pleasure at the plaudits and waved high & wide his hat. Last week, confident of his power and surfeited with adulation, he sped down the Avenida in his limousine, so briskly that the mob had scarcely time to see or cheer...
...opera nights the broad Avenida de Mayo, famed Fifth Avenue of Buenos Aires, purrs with the opulent Panhards, Renaults, Minervas of opera bound millionaires. The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars. From the Loterias, orthodox and legal vendors of chance, stream the fortunate, to cash their winnings, for a stall, a box, in La Colon...