Word: emilio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emilio Razzore had made his circus his life. Like his father and grandfather, who started the circus in Rio 112 years ago, he had toured the dusty towns and cities of South America and the Caribbean, with his five clowns, his dancing bears, and the chimpanzees that rode bicycles. He had tigers and monkeys, and trained dogs. Best of all, he had two beautiful acrobats: his daughter Dolinda and his niece Guillermina...
Many Names. Vidali was born near Trieste, about 50 years ago. After Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...
Rush Season, in Mexico City, Factory Manager Emilio Checa addressed a quarter-page newspaper ad to Teléfonos de Mexico: "Forty days ago we reported our telephone out of order. Won't you please have something done...
...Struck dumb in 1943 by an emotional disorder, Emilio Franco, a 35-year-old coal miner, took a ride on a Coney Island roller coaster, began screaming on the second dip. Back on solid ground, his first coherent words in five years were: "I feel sick...
When, in 1936, General Emilio Mola announced that he would capture Madrid because he had four columns outside the city and a fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word. The world might better have been stunned as by a tocsin of calamity. For what Mola had done was to indicate the dimension of treason in our time...