Word: cordova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auld Acquaintance. In Van Nuys, Calif., Angel Cordova explained why he had smashed a beer bottle through the windshield of Carlos Carrillo's car: "I thought he was a friend of mine who I thought...
...plot: the king of Basin Street (Arturo de Cordova) is run out of town by the mother (Irene Rich) of a music-minded debutante (Dorothy Patrick) who likes him and the short-haired music played in Arturo's basement by Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong). Arturo and Louis move on to Chicago and finally to world success, which is excuse enough for everybody to kiss and make...
Like pressagents, oil promoters and manufacturers of face mud, witches must never allow a client to feel doubt about the product. This is particularly true in the matter of hexes and evil spells. When scraggly-haired, Mexican-born Mrs. Martina Cordova burned black candles and stirred up foul-smelling liquids in her Denver rooming house, she looked very impressive. But her method of applying and removing hexes was too routine...
Last week this machine-age approach got Mrs. Cordova into trouble. Three of her best clients complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...
District Attorney Burke was slightly baffled at first. If Mrs. Cordova was a witch-even an unsuccessful witch-what could he do about it? He set a deputy to searching the statutes, discovered that a law prohibiting palmistry, mesmerism and seership also made "crafty sciences" illegal. Promptly he jailed Mrs. Cordova; just as promptly she got out-by muttering Spanish phrases, throwing dark glances and posting $1,000 bail...