Word: senorita
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Considerably more colorful than the other winners was the dark and handsome youth of 21 who performed the most noteworthy feat for Spain. Juan Ignacio Pombo had been in love with Senorita Maria Elena Rivero Corral since they were children. When her father, a newspaper publisher, moved to Mexico City and took Maria along, Juan was not daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought...
...Senorita Elida Dacunda flounced out into the broiling village plaza. In two minutes she had found her father. In five minutes he had gathered a mob. Father Dacunda rushed into the telegraph office, sent a protest to the Provincial Governor at nearby Corrientes, rushed out again. The mob retired to the cooler shadows on the edge of the square...
...Ambassador's plane landed him in Miami, exiled Cuban foes of President Grau embarrassed Mr. Welles by hailing him as one who had "done his best" to oust the President. An impulsive anti-Grau senorita made the Ambassador blush by flinging her arms around his neck and whispering something...
...right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...