Word: moreno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse...
...carpeted chambers of the Casa Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...
...last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities...
Second, attraction is Comic Mario Moreno, known throughout Latin America as Cantinflas, Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...Mexican group are Bernardo Ponce and Gonzalo Baez Camargo, both of Excelsior; Jose Perez Moreno of Universal; Cesar Ortiz Tinoco, of El Popular; Rafael Herrerlas, of Novedades; Francisco M. Armand, of La Prensa; and Xavier Sanchez Gavito, of El Nacional...