Word: monteros
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...Harems went ages ago, but the harem mentality lives on," complained another. The former dean of Madrid University's Law School even gave ground. "I see no serious objection to granting women the right to be witnesses to a will," said Don Eloy Montero, "even if they have a reputation of being somewhat talkative . . ." Warned a Catholic priest: "Beware of the many ways of heresy . . . Woman must be, in the words of the Apostles, 'subject to her husband.' " But all in all, Senora Formica felt encouraged...
Last week Manhattan newspapers reported such a marriage. The bride was Anne Mather, an heiress to a Cleveland iron-ore fortune and a descendant of New England's old Puritan Cotton Mather. The groom was Frank Curie Montero, a director of the Urban League Fund, whom she had met in social-welfare work...
...sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
...Topaze labeled President Juan Esteban Montero "One-Step" (roughly the way Juan Esteban sounds in Spanish when correctly pronounced). The nickname stuck, the Montero dignity was ruined. He was ultimately ousted. The idea was much the same as if President Roosevelt became known as "Frankly Dull...
...during the last Presidency of Arturo Alessandri, known as "The Lion," Topaze printed a cartoon showing a decrepit, mangy old lion being tamed by Alessandri's most despised political rival. Said Délano: "Who ever heard of referring to a President as a lion?" Alessandri, like Montero, became a laughingstock...