Word: guez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber of Deputies was examining the credentials of new members elected in July. Among the opposition was Accion Nacional's Antonio L. Rodríguez, big businessman from Monterrey. When his name was called, a voice from the Government side cried: "Alas for the revolution! An industrialist, a banker, an enemy of the revolution...
Quickly Rodríguez replied: "That I am a banker, an industrialist and a businessman should cause you no wonder. I am only reversing the procedure-you others came into this Congress, and emerged as bankers, industrialists and businessmen...
Automatically the deputies applauded. Then the sense of what Rodríguez had said sunk in. Applause died in an embarrassed hush...
Some 25,000 eager aficionados paid scalpers up to $200 a seat for the thrill of watching Spain's finest torero, slight, 28-year-old, chinless Manolete (born Manuel Rodríguez,), make his first appearance in the Mexican bull ring. Outside Mexico City's Plaza de Toros, some 200 Federal troops, 50 tear-gas squadmen and two fire-engine crews restrained the thousands who could not get tickets...
...some art lovers, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez is a Spanish Titian, to others a somewhat dismal virtuoso. But Spain's Habsburg-lipped Philip IV had no doubts about Velazquez' greatness. He took one look at Velazquez' first portrait of him, thereafter refused to let anybody else paint his picture, sat for 14 portraits by the methodical, meticulous court painter...