Word: nicanor
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Both men, the citizenry decided, were admirable fellows. Therefore, crowds cheered Edward of Wales when he arrived from London to visit the Spanish Royal Family; and still greater crowds throated lustily when Nicanor Villalta, slayer of 800 bulls, returned from Mexico, bearing that chief prize of the American bull ring, a bauble known as "The Golden Ears of Mexico...
Daniel Simonds '28 will sail his schooner "Nicanor" across the Atlantic this summer to participate in the Fastnet race, the English long distance ocean race corresponding to the American yachtsman's Bermuda race...
...Nicanor" is 67 feet long overall, and is from designs by Alden similar to his famous "Malabars", which have made such excellent showings in ocean races of the past few seasons. The craft was built in the yards of Charles Morse in Thomaston, Maine...