Word: gomez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laureano Gomez...
...should be emphasized that the people of Colombia and probably 95% of the Catholic clergy had nothing to do with this, but could do nothing to stop it during the Gomez regime...
...great disappointment of Sherlock Holmes, however, is the quality of the principals' performances. While Nigel Bruce played Watson as a slow, but solid aide to Holmes, Jack Raine makes him a retarded Colonel Blimp, rather mildly interested in Holmes' adventures. Similarly, Thomas Gomez is badly miscast as Professor Moriarity. Though unctuously sinister, Gomez looks more like an indigent music teacher than a Napoleon of crime. His great girth and flowing hair hardly suit the "lean, ascetic" arch-criminal of Doyle's imagination...
...face. His nature is jovial. He appears phlegmatic. But I suspect that the joviality can fall like a mask, and the somewhat flabby features grow taut. His lips are thin. I will not be surprised if I hear him make hard decisions." So wrote a German Communist of "General Gomez," commander of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and a professional soldier in the cause of Communism...
Born in 1893 in Germany's turbulent Ruhr, Gomez was actually Wilhelm Zais-ser. He had got his taste for fighting in Germany's World War I army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. When the bloody "workers' rebellion" broke out in the Ruhr in 1923, Zaisser organized workers' brigades. He was already known as the "Red General of the Ruhr." Taken prisoner, he escaped to Russia, where he became a Soviet citizen and a colonel in the Red army. During the Nazi regime, he returned to Germany, a leader and organizer...