Word: magnificoes
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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...
From the only man who ever bought a business* from five Jews and sold it to seven Scotchmen at a profit, this was a dire prophecy. Yet the pert, imaginative magnifico-who cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and in 1909 impudently invaded London, with U. S. merchandising methods-had reason to be glum. Three weeks ago he resigned his chairmanship of Selfridge & Co., Ltd., great, gaunt, sprawling department store on Oxford Street west of Oxford Circus, took the inactive, empty post of president...
...pert, imaginative magnifico who was born in Ripon, Wis. and cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., was Harry Gordon Self ridge, 51, when in 1909 he started Self ridge & Co. in London. By impudent American-style promotion it soon became most talked about, one of the most successful of London's department stores, now has annual sales of some $75,000,000. Among the earliest of Harry Selfridge's stunts was an advertisement in the form of an institutional editorial, run daily in the London Times over the by-line "Callisthenes...