Word: santo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
...Author. Few of Dumas' novels were more fantastic than his life and ancestry. His father, the mulatto son of one of his grandfather's Santo Domingo slaves, enlisted in King Louis XVI's army as a private. During the Revolution he rose from private to commander in 20 months...
Andante. Manuel Quezon is only 21 days older than Sergio Osmeña. They met on the campus of Manila's Santo Tomas University, roomed together in law school. Both rose to provincial governorships, both were elected to the National Assembly. Osmeña, boss of the Nationalist Party, became Speaker, chose his friend Quezon for floor leader...
...Naples. There, a few weeks later, in a waterfront hotel room from which he could look out on Mt. Vesuvius, Enrico Caruso died. His body, embalmed and buried for two years, was subsequently disinterred, carried in state through the Naples streets to its final resting place in the Campo Santo di Poggioreale cemetery. For several years thereafter the cemetery's gatekeeper was reported to have done a rushing business in tips showing Caruso's body to visiting tourists. In the late '20s the Caruso family put a stop to the tourist traffic, caused a stout slab...
After a year in Santo Domingo, Steinberg reached the U.S. last July. At once he felt at home. He is most amused by American women, especially "the middleaged, fat [ones] eating in cafeterias always a piece of bread, always smiling." Explains he in Steinbergian English: "The adventures for these women who are accustomed to quiet lives and banalities are so funny when things happen to them." Steinberg is somewhat more explicit about...