Word: santos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making his image is rarely undertaken except by direct appointment by the Orixás (gods). Top Bahian devilmaker today is Reginaldo Andrade Costa, 28, a part-time garage mechanic who agreed to make them only when a regal candomblé priestess known as a mãe do santo (mother of the saint) explained that the iron figures were harmless until "blessed." His raw material is scrap iron, but Costa's crudely formed statuettes are striking embodiments of evil, have the authority of images born of the terror of unquestioning belief...
This week, after 56 years, Venice finally saw its patriarch again. At that 1903 conclave, to his surprise, Giuseppe Sarto was himself elected Pope, and in 1954, 40 years after his death, he became what would have surprised him still more-a saint ("I'm no santo, I'm Sarto," he once quipped), enshrined in the Vatican. Now the Pope's body was returning through the thoughtfulness of another ex-Patriarch of Venice, Pope John XXIII, who decided to keep St. Pius X's promise...
With a quiet smile the gamblers slipped fresh boutonnieres into their black silk lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None...
...civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew. Roosevelt astonished the world by honoring the U.S.'s Spanish-American War pledge to Cuba not to trespass upon but rather...
Death in Bed. Dumas père's own father was a drama in himself. Son of a French marquis and a Santo Domingo Negro woman, he rose from trooper to general in Napoleon's army in a few years. General Dumas was famed for holding the narrow Bridge of Brixen singlehanded against a whole Austrian squadron. He quarreled fiercely with Bonaparte, who put him on "the unemployed list" as soon as he had no further need of him. Broken in spirit, Grandfather Dumas died in 1806, leaving on record the parting words: "Oh! Must a general...