Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear...
...aspirants for the nomination, that it might become indispensable to renominate me as the only means of restoring harmony, and of preserving harmony in the next election, and that it might become my duty to yield.". . . They urged also the condition of the country being engaged in a foreign [Mexican] war, and their conviction that I would be the strongest man of the party. I still adhered to my often expressed determination to retire at the close of my present term...
...Miguel never was a Brazilian, either born or naturalized. I suspect that you have got hold of a Mexican or possibly Argentine specimen of Mickey Mouse, as the designation is Spanish...
When low tide kept his pilot boat from landing at Tulum, Quintana Roo, impulsive Mexican President Lázaro Cÿrdenas, anxious to get on with his job, pulled on his bathing suit and plunged overboard, swam ashore, followed by 60 cursing members of the Presidential party...
Because Irish, French and English military teams, old favorites with the fans, had a previous engagement this year (thus narrowing the international field to Mexican, Chilean, U. S. cavalrymen), the twelve principal civilian events for hunters and jumpers* received more than customary attention during the eight days of the show. Because 75% of the hunters and jumpers exhibited at U. S. horse shows nowadays are ridden by women, the spotlight focused on the jumping Jills...