Word: gallardo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samaritans. In Lima, Peru, Manuel Gallardo Orihuela, knocked down by a hit & run driver, shouted for help, was picked up by three men who robbed him of his clothing and money...
Every morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...
Then Chile's Ambassador, Conrado Ríos Gallardo, presented a note which he "was most happy to deliver." His Government declared that the Farrell regime was legal, required no new recognition. The hemisphere front was also a flop, cracked by a supposedly friendly, democratic country to which the U.S. had confidently looked for support. Cheering Argentine nationalists surrounded the Chilean Embassy, waited for other Latin nations to follow Chile's example. Chileans waited for angry repercussion in their own country...
...celluloid, 19 years ago, he had an instinctive understanding of the part. In many ways his own career paralleled Juan's. An obscure and hungry Italian immigrant, he had become the most extensively worshiped matinee idol in the history of the theater. His kindred feeling for Juan Gallardo made the matador's tragedy seem real. His performance produced a character who was a shining, dominant personality in the arena, a vulgar poseur...
...modulated 1941 counterpart of Valentino-downy, dark-eyed Tyrone Power. In Producer Darryl Zanuck's expensive, Technicolored remake of Blood and Sand, nice Mr. Power acts as if he were just acting. He is. Tyrone Power, as many a U.S. female knows, is cute. Neither Juan Gallardo nor Rudolph Valentino nor any other Latin male was ever cute...