Word: condesa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
...great horse-racing country. Though their ancestors saw the first horses ever brought to America (by Cortés in 1519), Mexicans have always preferred bullfighting. In the '80s, when racing reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., Mexicans caught the fever for a while. Mexico City's Condesa race track, which flourished under President Porfirio Diaz, had the pomp of England's royal Ascot...
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