Word: magnifico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge at all, the cabron, and this day the crowd did not like Lorenzo Garza but much preferred Armillita, who worked in the decadent style of the imitators of Belmonte and (Lorenzo Garza thought) was not of sufficient worth to exhibit himself mano a mano with El Magnifico in the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City. Lorenzo Garza spat in the sand. Then he drew his sword from underneath the muleta, profiled and lunged at the bull...
...Cooke I was a 19th-Century magnifico, and looked it. He financed the Lincoln Government during the Civil War, went broke backing the Northern Pacific Railroad. The crash of his banking house touched off the cataclysmic Panic...
...great-grandson, Jay Cooke IV, who looks less like a magnifico than a well-coddled good egg, is an enthusiastic archer, a limited partner in a Philadelphia firm of securities underwriters, an amiable, conservative gentleman who neither courted nor got much public notice until...