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...grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos Aires cemeteries, always a favored gathering place for somber Argentines, were unusually crowded, and tombs were cluttered with waxy calla lilies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Piropo Time | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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