Word: horacio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
...Horacio lost sleep, protested, continued to lose sleep. One evening he came home from work, tired and late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...
...Horacio Guimaraes could stand no more. He burst from his house, invaded the sacred ground shouting curses at Ricardina. The High Priest came to her rescue. Drawing a knife, Horacio stabbed him four times. He died. Horacio ran away, was caught and consigned to the peace & quiet of jail...
Chemists of note have testified to Jorge's extraordinary chemical knowledge. One was Dr. Horacio Damianovich, founder of Santa Fé's School of Chemistry, who last week busied himself taking up a private collection for the boy. The chief chemist of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Argentine branch examined Jorge, found he has the chemical background of a college sophomore. A charming, volatile lad, Jorge can rattle off the laws of Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Pascal, Torricelli faster than most scholars twice his age can follow. Last week Santa Fé's Parliament...