Word: baerlein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BELMONTE, THE MATADOR - Henry Baerlein-Smith & Haas...
...wrote Don Modesto of Madrid, most feared of bullfight critics, after seeing Juan Belmonte for the first time. For the 15 years (1912-27) of Belmonte's ring career all Spain proudly echoed Don Modesto's opinion. Biographer Baerlein goes even further, puts Belmonte on a level with Cervantes and Goya. Readers who liked Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon will want to read this rambling Hispanophile book about Spain's No. 1 modern matador...
...Author. In spite of his name and his southern-European style of writing, Henry Baerlein was born in the very Brit ish spot of Manchester, on April Fool's Day 59 years ago. But Manchester could not hold him long. World-wide traveler, his particular provinces are the Near East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid...
...theory that "it is better if one lives . . . than if one does nothing but regard the lives of other people," they have little to do with each other at first. Before the book ends they are bosom friends. Ilarion makes for towns to peddle his pictures in; Wanderluster Baerlein devotes most of his attention to ancient legends and modern lassies...
...only said that he was bound by law to sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend he is a gnome. But as gnomes are known to milk other people's cows, the two of them must milk cows too. Unfortunately the cows in this part of the country are buffaloes; unfortunately the buffaloes will...