Word: santos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swathed bandages, the lesions of leprosy. But to thousands of U.S. prisoners, she was known affectionately as "Joey." Before the war, Mrs. Josefina Guerrero had been something of a belle in Manila society. She was young, pretty and vivacious. Her husband was a wealthy medical student at Santo Tomas University. They had a two-year-old daughter...
...only real hobby is his work. Once in a long while he goes trout-fishing in Madison River, Idaho. His trips to Latin America are a busman's holiday: on a 1941 junket to Panama, he gave 29 lectures at Gorgas Memorial Institute, did 40 operations at Santo Tomas Hospital...
...Party to entrench itself in the basic and key industries to foment strikes, the paralyzing of the economy, the arming of the workers and the winning over of the armed forces to become allies of the workers for the purpose of overthrowing the Government." He had often conferred with Santo, he said, explaining that "Santo's job was to organize the subway system in the City of New York...
...Cats. The defense, quite naturally, did not take kindly to the ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...
Amidst the verbal fireworks, John Santo, who came to the U.S. from Rumania 20 years ago on a four-year student's visa, was almost forgotten. Unlike the Baronet of Ruddigore, who "writhed in agony," handsome, curly-haired Santo mockingly rested his head on one arm and pretended to sleep. Before the prosecution is through, however, his case might become as celebrated as the Government's unsuccessful attempt, two years ago, to deport Harry Bridges...