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Purple Approach: "More jungle-humid, reeking. A soldier plucks twenty dollars' worth of purple orchids (New York quotation) and sticks them in the band of his sombrero. Troops of screaming monkeys swing past, stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully...
...lined up against a wall with Martinez Pulido, the latter asked him for a loan of a few pesos, which he placed on his sombrero, promising them to the soldiers on condition that they shot him through the heart. "Be sure and pay them back," said General Palacios, laughingly, as he made the loan...
Lately, Senator Curtis has trimmed up the drooping mustache which, with his black sombrero, used to distinguish him as an old-time politician. But he still works "on the inside," letting his effusive colleague, Senator Arthur Capper, do the handshaking, the rooster-boosting. He would make a quiet nominee and no crowd of political ' creditors would follow him around...
...tries a mixture of cowboys and kings. Herein, a millionaire cowherd of Arizona rambles all over Europe on the indefinite trail of Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations...
...Jack") Garner of Texas, ranking minority member of the committee, arrived wearing a new two-gallon sombrero. Later he called informally on Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and they debated the merits of the Democratic and Republican tax cutting schemes...