Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with the imagery of sensational violence...
...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...
...road to Ellis paved with good intentions," gurgled the Sage of the Age as he downed the Antaya bottle of Brewster get tight, his spirits growing Dampier and Dampier. "Cummings," he yelled at the door. "You may get a Hanover too. Diaz mean to Sayres that Lewis still sober...
...DAVILA DIAZ...
...fact that the right to an education-which the U.S. has long taken for granted-is in Mexico a new and highly prized possession. When Ezequiel Padilla returned home from the Sorbonne in 1914, Mexico was still seething from the revolution which overthrew the 30-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz-a revolution which was temporarily balked of its gains by the assassination of Francisco Madero...