Word: juanito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte (son of the great Belmonte, who was the master bullfighter in the late '20s). Manolete haughtily says the dispute will be settled "before the bull, not behind the desk." If he stays as good as he has been this season, Manolete will...
Last week, tending his coffee plants in the shade of the banana trees, the average Guatemalan peon knew little enough of these facts. True, he had not seen a blond, German-speaking finquero in years, but the finquero had lived in Guatemala City and Juanito had seldom seen him anyway. More money jingled in Juanito's pocket (his wages were recently hiked from 5? to 50? a day), but higher prices had just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss...