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Word: joselito (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...cowardly Cagancho who is wonderful with a bull he trusts, wretched with all others; Rafael El Gallo, famed for his final appearances and for his shamelessness in refusing even to try to kill a bull who looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed 1,557 bulls, was gored badly three times, killed the fourth time; the almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ole! Ole! | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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