Word: firpo
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...said that Firpo has never smoked and has never taken a drink...
...these questions (put by an interpreter) Firpo shrugged his massive shoulders...
...newspapermen who gave Firpo his nom de guerre, "Wild Bull of the Pampas." And later it was the newspapermen who had Luis eat raw meat. Thus with a single flourish of the pen is a bovine rendered carnivorous. One journalist (Frank F. O'Neill of The Sun and The Globe] had wit enough to remark: " The public is expected to see a horned man roaming about with blood from fresh-killed steaks dripping from his mouth...
...Song of Firpo's friends...
Alfred Mayer, correspondent for La Nacion (Buenos Aires), told a Manhattan journalist,* who appeared to be credulous, that in a certain Argentine field meet Firpo ran the mile in 4:23. (This is only a shade more than ten seconds beyond the best time ever made...