Word: facundo
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first, "Laucha's Marriage" by Payro, is an amusing tale of the marital troubles of a gaucho, one of the cowboy- hobo-adventurers that are the famed type of the Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely...