Word: pepe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bello had not been in a rage, he might not have demanded that the impresario get the finest bulls in Mexico for him and his brother Pepe to fight...
...general gnawed a stalk of cane. He spat out a wad, and with it his requiescat on the Caribbean Legion: "That damned legion is out of action, anyway. They couldn't get any more dough from Tio Pepe [Uncle Joe] Stalin, I guess . . . That Costa Rican business was just a guerra de galleticas [cookie war] to keep [President] Figueres [of Costa Rica] in power...
...latest movie version (there have been four U.S. ones) of Tolstoy's lesser masterpiece. It is by far the costliest ($2,000,000) but far from the best.* Sir Alexander Korda and his British bankers provided the money; France's famed Director Julien Duvivier (Pepe Le Moko, Panic) contributed' his talents...
...fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions ran a gas station, the other a bakery. Pepe Castro shined shoes in the Plaza de Armas...
...Pope Brewer wired from Madrid: "An engineer . . . starts at 8,000 pesetas (about $560) a year. It doesn't buy much. 'Can anyone live without buying from the black market?' I asked. 'Nobody,' Engineer Pepe Jimenez answered. ... He thinks the Franco regime has helped the working man." (Timesman Brewer added: "Anyone who thinks otherwise is unlikely to be an engineer...