Word: espinosas
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...through with the big news. Then El Sapote too blazed away at the Palace. Policemen with their pay in their pockets bravely tried to defend the chief of state, as did a few loyal troops. Whether it was true or not, a rumor circulated that Finance Minister Francisco Jose Espinosa had something to do with the hold-up in the officers' pay. Finance Minister Espinosa was promptly killed...
...Mayor Gomez's sister, Detective Delgado noticed (and it was odd that President Machado had not noticed the ominous fact long ago), is the wife of Major Manuel Espinosa, for five and a half years aide-de-camp to the President, and commander of the palace guards. Lightning-like, the deductive flash of suspicion leaped from the plumbing plans in the Municipal Archives through the ex-Mayor, his sister and the President's aide to the soldier and the bomb. Confronted by Cuba's Philo Vance with these crushing suspicions, the soldier broke down utterly...
Last week those of Rome's lower classes who were able to read perused with awe an announcement made by one Dr. A. Degil Espinosa, whom U. S. correspondents described as a "financial expert." After several months of careful figuring Dr. Espinosa published his estimate of the private wealth in Italy-$25,000,000,000. Of this amount, he computed that $8,000,000,000 was in the form of land, $1,250,000,000 in foreign bonds...
Walter Hagen was there, and George Von Elm, Horton Smith, MacDonald Smith, Johnny Farrell, Al Espinosa. Leo Diegel was the resident professional. When the tournament was postponed for six days because of rain one-eyed Tommy Armour and a few others had to go home. Then the rain stopped and the cups were set into the greens on the brand-new course on which, until the first tournament competitor started over it, no one had ever played a stroke. The qualifying round was notable chiefly for the bad golf played. At the end of the first round Sarazen was fourteenth...
...long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in a match play. Harry Cooper, who had been given a starting time, was ruled out because he had not played in the elimination tournament in his district. Tommy Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then was put out himself by Watrous. In the finals Farrell kept on Diegel's heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball in the hole trying to putt past a stymie...