Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mickey Mouse film. Walter Disney pro duces 26 films a year, 13 Mickey Mouse cartoons, 13 Silly Symphonies. Like Charlie Chaplin, Mickey Mouse is understood all over the world because he does not talk. The Germans call him Michael Maus, the French Michel Souris, the Spaniards Miguel Ratonocito and Miguel Pericote, the Japanese Miki Kuchi. Although his Christian name might be understood as an affront to Irish dignity, he has been respectfully reviewed in the Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives...
...almost a daily boast of pre-Depression politicians, advertisers and economists, that an enormous factor in U. S. prosperity was the widespread distribution and constant use of automobiles. So too apparently believed the late Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, who spent millions of pesetas improving Spanish motor roads, advertising Spain as a motorist's paradise. Not at all convinced of the necessity for automobiles are Spain's present Prime Minister, General Damasco Berenguer, and his Minister of National Economy J. Rodriguez de Viguri...
...monarchists mass meeting in Seville last week spoke fiery old Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres Count de Romanones, thrice Prime Minister of Spain before the dictatorship of King Alfonso and the late Don Miguel Primo de Rivera began...
Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...
...Madrid, Miguel Suero went around catching cats and hanging them to trees. Arrested, he told police his son was ill; he was sacrificing the cats to save his life...