Word: candido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morro, a contemporary landscape with figures, by Brazil's No. 1 modern Painter Candido Portinari...
Police and Schools. Candido Mota Filho, one of the nation's best known reactionaries, was imposed as a professor on the São Paulo Law School. (The students walked...
...came home from work, tired and late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...
...world first became conscious of the Big Woods province 30 years ago when toothsome Teddy Roosevelt, Son Kermit and Brazil's great pioneer explorer, General Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (now 78), floated down and mapped the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). The river was later named Rio Roosevelt. Flaviano Van-ique's sphere of action is a section neglected by Roosevelt and Rondon, east of T.R.'s treacherous River of Doubt...
American flags flew in the streets of London last week and in Sydney crowds sang The Star-Spangled Banner. In Rio de Janeiro one Candido Botelho, a baritone, became the star of the Urea Casino floor show when he sang God Bless America in English against a backdrop of U. S. and Brazilian flags, with chorus girls wearing red, white & blue uniforms...