Word: paisanos
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Most of Flat's plot is concerned with keeping Paisano Garfield from committing the unpardonable sin of marrying. This predicament would never have arisen if his grandfather had not died and bequeathed him two clapboard houses and a gold watch-a misfortune bemoaned by his indolent companions when they discover that a peach-skinned Portuguese named Hedy Lamarr has her dark eyes on their new-found wealth...
...Paisano Tracy, who can outthink and outtalk his hot-headed young friend, manages to turn the timepiece into four jugs of wine and to reduce Garfield's marriageability by inadvertently burning down one of his inherited houses. But when the irascible, love-struck fellow actually accepts a job to prepare for his marriage, they know he is beyond recall. Their final philosophic gesture, done in sorrow, is to fire his remaining house while he is away honeymooning...
...matter of fact, it looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance to pile up a whopping sum of honest votes. In Mexico that was something. The candidates...