Word: senhores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senhor & Senhorita...
These words are Spanish whereas in Brazil only Portuguese (not Spanish) is spoken (or didn't you know it?) and therefore the correct spelling is "Senhor," "Senhora" and "Senhorita...
...week. All good Brazilians believe that he invented the airplane before the Wrights. And, because the U. S. this month is honoring the Wrights' 25th anniversary of flight (to which Brazil is sending no official representative), those good Brazilians organized a celebration of their own. They insisted that Senhor Santos-Dumont quit his placid retirement in Paris for a gala demonstration in Rio. He has lived in France some 30 years, earning aeronautical reputation as a pioneer builder & flyer of dirigibles, as an early (1906) builder & flyer of an airplane; popular reputation as a feeder of Paris' poor...
...Brazilians were clamoring for some gesture from Alberto Santos-Dumont. They wanted the United States of Brazil to thumb its collective nose at the United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists...
Inaugural Unrest. No sooner was Senhor Luiz installed at the Presidential Palace, presumably to remain there until 1930, than 400 troops in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul mutinied, and necessitated the despatch of 1.000 federal troops to quell them. Skirmishing continued throughout the week, and recalled the virtual war waged by retiring President Bernardes during 1924-25 against various perpetually rebellious factions in the provincial states. The Government announced last week with regret that in view of this fresh mutiny the "state of siege" declared at Rio de Janeiro in 1924 to permit censorship of the press...