Word: segundo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country. The program consisted of four games (three doubles and one singles), with entr'actes of Spanish fandangos to keep the spectators' minds off the absence of betting-an integral part of the game's popularity in other cities. Headliners were the "Four Aces": Spaniards Piston, Segundo, Gabriel and Guillermo (jai-alaiers are known by only one name). Most publicized of the quartet was Piston, whose real name is Estanislao Maistegui, but was nicknamed Piston when he first started to play the game in his native San Sebastián. In a rough & tumble doubles game...
...such people, confident in Right, the discovery of oil last spring near Guaranty's El Segundo holdings was no surprise. Talk of a dollar-for-dollar payment to shareholders grew loud as President Murphy leased the property in exchange for a 16% royalty on any oil produced, last week reached a mighty crescendo: the Guaranty's first well produced 2,500 barrels of oil on its first...
...lifeboat racing come into its own as an international sport. In that year the old Neptune Association, an organization of deepwater shipmasters and licensed deck officers, began holding international races of one nautical mile in New York Harbor, first of which was won by the crew of the Norwegian Segundo. In 1933, after the race had been increased to two miles. Robert L. Hague of Standard Oil Co. of N. J. donated a silver trophy to be presented to the crew which won three races, and next year led in forming the International Lifeboat Racing Association, Inc. Last week...
...SEGUNDO SOMBRA: SHADOWS ON THE PAMPAS-Ricardo Güiraldes-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The life of a gaucho on the South American prairie. Has been called the Argentinian Huckleberry Finn...
...noon last week Havana's City Treasurer Segundo Curtis, who happens to be a leader of the Radical Revolutionary Party unalterably opposed to President Mendieta and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, walked inconspicuously down the steps of the City Hall and away as if to lunch. Quarter of an hour later police in the corridors heard cries from the Treasury vault, rushed in to open it. Out popped the City cashier and three assistants with a tall tale...