Word: camilo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
...politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front of 42,000 War veterans and planning a coup d'état. Franco was exiled to Argentina. Last week two Franco friends, Colonels Federico Weddell Smith and Camilo Recalde, ran off as neat a revolution in Paraguay as anyone would like...
...When Camilo Aldao announced the production of a play starring Cardini, the famed magician, there was considerable apprehension in "the circles" as to just what sort of drama could be erected about his suave but untested histrionics. The apprehension was justified. "The Ascending Dragon" is good entertainment when Cardini is performing his wondrous slight of hand with cards and cigarettes. As a mystery drama it doesn't excite much praise. Slow moving, not particularly clever in construction, weighted with a burden of dull lines it looks like the season's first "also...
...good fortune was only beginning. Chardon made her a star. To surround her with glamour, he let it be known that she had been the mistress of Camilo el Durqui, Argentine sportsman, who supposedly had been lost on a transatlantic flight-the same eccentric, grocery-delivering millionaire. As Coralee rose to fame on this hoax-"all Paris twittered over her aura of mystery"-Camilo el Durqui returned, uninjured but angry...
Their romance, involving nocturnal meetings at which Coralee was embarrassed because she was wearing only stepins', developed by the devious paths of mutual misunderstandings. These two lovers were so easily baffled that they could not grasp even the most rudimentary aspects of each other's characters. Camilo could never get it through his dark and well-groomed head that Coralee, in her new role of star, was just the same little girl to whom he had delivered groceries. (He had some justification, for Coralee's eyes, china-blue in Chapter One, turned dewy violet in Chapter Five...