Word: madrileno
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...band can match the primitive rhythms of a Duke Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain's matadors gravely considered the Mexican menace last week, sent a resolution...