Word: bullfighting
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...critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight Death in the Afternoon may not turn you into an aficionado (fan), but it should make you aware that Spain's national sport is something more than a merely brutal spectacle...
After reading 80 angry letters of protest, William J. Egan, director of Public Safety in Newark, N. J., last week told Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Brooklyn toreador, that he could not hold a bullfight in New Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary...
When Mrs. Fiske heard about Director Egan's decision she said: "My compliments to Mr. Egan and the Mayor. The people of the world will be informed that the United States will not even tolerate a burlesque bullfight...
Like a red cloak at a bullfight was the red morocco brief case which Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning carried ostentatiously under his arm last week as he entered the Reichstag to put his new Cabinet (TIME, April 7) to the test-a vote of confidence...
When Eskimos take up tennis it will be news not much more unexpected than last fortnight's reports from Mexico City. There, where people take siestas before the bullfight, was played football. Soccer has long flourished in the sunshine zone, but it is regulation U. S. football, in felt-padded moleskins, that University of Mexico students are learning to play...