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...knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain is the chase which comes when a bull, not the mild educated one that he expects, but a monstrous angry black one named Diablo, pursues Cantor about the ring and then into the aisles, loping lightly over a high fence. Cantor chloroforms the bull, climbs into a box seat for a duet with Lyda Roberti. She is a Senorita Rosalie whose friend Anita (Ruth Hall) admires Cantor's friend Ricardo (Robert Young...
...diablo!" shouted Sr. Morales. "For that much money I can buy one ton of bananas in Nicaragua...
...American War as a General. In 1917 he buckled on his ancient horse pistol and went out as a rebel against President Menocal. For this revolution he had made peace with Menocal and joined his forces, partly through a mutual hatred of Machado the Rooster, and partly because -Que Diablo!-a good revolution doesn't come every day. Federal troops cornered the white-haired old warrior near Los Palacios in Pinar del Rio. He escaped to the hills on horseback with 22 followers. Again there was a traitor. The Federals followed to Peraza's secret camp on Toro...
...Year's Day Mexico adopted a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty for murder, abolishing trial by jury in criminal cases. Before Mexico's First Penal Court last week came Murderers Dionoso ("Diablo") Corono and Pascasio Gonzales, charged with slaying one Jose Valdes, his wife and his daughter. Horrified and excited by testimony that the murders had been committed with extreme and unprintable ferocity, the judges lost their heads, forgot that the new law curtails their powers, and pronounced sentence of death "on these two Devils...
Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...