Word: coxcomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn...
...Nonohay, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, natives and their families danced rustically last week; banteringly told one Lieut. Matias Cuardos, coxcomb, that he might not join their merrymaking. Enraged, Matias Cuardos ordered a squad of his soldiers to fire at the dancers. Eleven were killed, 27 wounded...