Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married men in his army and went to the hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could...
Nancy Lorraine Joan Blendell Kent Adolphe Menjou Jerry Ford Dick Powell Arline Dale Mary Astor George Ellerbee Guy Kibbee Will Edwin Frank McHugh...
...plots, all rather involved, but the movie has been assembled quite expertly and intelligently. The cast, with the exception of Adolphe Menjou who is a back slapping high-pressure salesman and quite unsuited to the part, could not have been better. Joan Blondell is a charming gold digger, and Guy Kibbee is as ludicrous as Harpo in his blonde chasing escapades...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...hell it was all about, even fell in love with a nice girl. But the nice girl married somebody else and Studs's musings never came to anything. By & large he was well content to be one of the boys and proud of his reputation as a hard guy. Then the neighborhood began to lose caste with an invasion of Negroes. When the Lonigans moved out the old gang broke up. On a sentimental journey back to his boyhood streets Studs saw that his world's base had been built on stubble, felt to his secret horror that...