Word: calzada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma in honor of their laws separating church & state. Later, the rich lined it with great mansions; France's best landscape designer was imported to make it look like the Champs Elys...
...some months now, Indio has had a new, a dream girl. In her honor, he even had the name of the street he has built on changed to "La Calzada de la Duke Olivia" (The Street of the Sweet Olivia). That he had never seen Olivia only heightened the poignancy of the romantic situation. But in August his old U.S. script-writing buddy, Marcus Goodrich, married Emilio's dream girl, whose name is Olivia de Havilland...
Bishop Ruesga's own church in Calzada de Guadalupe, a starkly simple building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...
...believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposición. Uncommitted politically, he is regarded by the Nazis as a Putsch possibility and convenient dark horse that could be ridden to power after pistoleros had done their work in the two opposing camps...