Word: marcial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Planning to raise cash for Spain by staging bullfights in the U. S. and other nations, Matador Marcial Lalanda, president of Spain's Bull Fighters' Syndicate, announced: "We are going to give them [the horses] morphine so that they will not suffer even if they are gored by the bulls. People in the United States who like rodeos should like our bullfights...
...sleepy southern French city of Béziers last week were billed Spain's three ranking matadors: Marcial Lalande, Domingo Ortega, Manolo Bienvenida. But Beziers Aficionados booed, hooted, threw bottles, for Béziers is stalwartly proletarian and the bulls came from a part of Spain held by Rightist General Franco. Not till the manager shouted that bulls' dislike of red is instinctive, not intellectual, did the crowd allow the corrida...
...resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...
...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...
...fine bulls of Don Ernesto Blanco for the glory of Spain's national sport. The next three days the encierro was repeated with different batches of bulls. At the end of four days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...