Word: matadors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matador...
...Mexico City, a man appeared on a boulevard, took his coat off and danced before approaching autos like a matador before a bull. When the motorists veered away, he shouted: "These animals have no fighting spirit...
After one lesson, James Joseph Tunney, last week slew an old and feeble bull at one sword-thrust on the estate of Matador Algabano in Seville. Natives screeched their glee...
...Orpen, British in his diversions as he is in his paintings, plays cricket in his spare moments, Zuloaga's sport is the sport of Spain. He was a bullfighter once and it was after the warm afternoon many years ago when a bull who had gored the young matador stood beside him to be killed, his nose pushed with a gesture of ignorant apology against the man's bloody shirt that Zuloaga chose a weapon lighter than the sword...
...house by leaping out a low window. Now, with tail up and lashing, with head low and small eyes rolling wickedly, he purposed to charge down a street thronging with pre-dinner-time crowds. Stalked fear, reigned panic. Suddenly from the doorway of an office building emerged the great matador* Fortuna. 'He had been upstairs signing a contract. He carried no bull baiting gear, wore an inconspicuous rain coat. Even . thus he was instantly recognized. Screamed women: "Save us Fortuna!" Throated men: "Kill the bull:" Serene, the great Fortuna moved with unhurried, catlike swiftness to satisfy the unreasonable demands...