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Word: caloca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Mijares shrieked: "Morones is a octopus sucking the blood of the laboring classes, vulturing and gorging on the dupes who have elected him President of the Crom!" Deputy Aurelio Manrique began by calling President Calles a Judas and worked down through comparisons which finally became obscene. Senator Lauro C. Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio Manrique had pulled guns on each other, but were overpowered by friends and disarmed before they could commit murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Crom Crisis | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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