Word: matador
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...suppose that to fall is the object of the event. Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery. More accustomed to piebald Shetlands than to angry cow-ponies, he failed to last the minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week old were Bulldogger Dick Shelton -once invited by the late Tex Rickard to become a prizefighter with coaching by Jack Dempsey-who threw a steer in 10 seconds...
Commented Spain's matador from Brooklyn, famed Sidney Franklin: "Maruja Fernandez never fights anything bigger than a two-year-old calf, and Heaven help her if she ever does...
Complaining that he had thus been branded "an impostor, liar, falsifier and humbug unworthy of serious consideration," Matador Franklin demanded $300,000 damages from Columbia Pictures...
...Matador Sidney Franklin (Frumkin) hailed Columbia Pictures into a Manhattan court where he offered two prime exhibits...
SHADOWS OF THE SUN-Alejandro Perez Lugin; trans. by Sidney Franklin-Scribner ($2.50). Bullfighting novel by a late Spanish journalist, translated by a U. S. matador...