Word: mazzantini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skilled matador, there is not only wealth (in 1902, Mazzantini and his men cleared some $40,000 in three months in Mexico), but public honor and license such as is unknown even by ball-players and pugilists in the U. S. Wherever they go in public, they are known by their gorgeous dress (black broadcloth, scarlet sash, white hose, shiny pumps). It is an honor to sit with them in cafes, to speak with them or be owed money by them. After a fight, the town they are in is theirs? wine and women complete...
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