Word: bernardo
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...court, behind the duchess, sat her codefendants: a lawyer, a printshop owner, a printer and Don Bernardo Bernardez, an elderly monarchist leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...
...took the court a few hours to acquit the duchess, sentence Don Bernardo to 18 months in jail (two other defendants got shorter prison terms). After the trial, the duchess, chic and cool in a tailored grey suit and gunmetal-colored nylons, appeared on a balcony to greet the crowds waiting in the street 'below. Then she went home. She immediately sent a message to Don Juan, exiled pretender to the Spanish throne. Said she: "I have cabled my King that I am free...
...Bernardo survived all other contestants on Radio El Mundo's Today We Have an Examination, a quiz program sponsored by a big Buenos Aires confectioner. To the 6,250-peso ($695) question, "What is a lararium?" Bernardo answered correctly: "The niche in a Roman house where the domestic gods were worshiped...
Then the jackpot winner had the chance at another question he had long and longingly anticipated. What, asked the announcer, did Bernardo plan to do with his money? Bernardo replied: "I intend to give the entire amount to the Social Aid Foundation ..." The announcer beamed. Everyone thought he obviously meant Evita Peron's richly endowed, much publicized Social Aid Foundation. But Bernardo continued, firmly and clearly: ". . . the Social Aid Foundation of the Socialist Party, of which I happen to be a member." Throwing caution to the winds, the audience burst into cheers...
...Bernardo's words became the talk of Argentina, the embarrassed government silenced Radio El Mundo for 24 hours, suspended its hapless announcer. "To make fun of people's ignorance and to exploit their confusion," warned the Ministry of Communications, ". . . is not in keeping with the educational, artistic or cultural aims of the nation." Henceforth, it was decreed, all radio programs in which the public would have access to the microphone are banned...