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...spelling and significance of Peralta's nickname. Spelled Mate Cocido, it means brewed yerba mate, a native tea, on which the bandit lived during a prison term. Spelled Mate Cosido, it refers to a wound Peralta got in a brush with police, means, in slang, Sutured Conk...
...Love You Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can gravely affect a man's deportment. Conkee is prim & proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance...
...long-dreamed of "flying for everybody." The autogiro can take off from a space no larger than 100 ft., land on a spot considerably smaller, practically anywhere. It can fly 120 m. p. h. or 20 m. p. h., maintaining perfect stability in either case. If the motor should "conk," the autogiro would behave exactly as if the pilot had deliberately shut off the power for a landing : it would settle earth ward at 14 ft. per sec. (slower than the drop of a man with a parachute), while the pilot maneuvered toward a flat space - say 50 ft. square...