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Word: torcuato (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...killed the woman found in the river," said a feminine voice, "is an army captain who lives in Don Torcuato [a suburb north of Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Case of the Captain's Mistress | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Torcuato, Reporter Toryho found the address, an iron-roofed cottage, but it was deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Case of the Captain's Mistress | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...years, said Massolo, he had led a Jekyll & Hyde existence. His respectable life he lived with his brother in Buenos Aires. The other part he played in Don Torcuato with Matilde Romero, his mistress, mother of his three children and the confidante of his secret. One day, Massolo said, Matilde threatened to expose him. In a rage, he clubbed her to death, dumped her body into the river, placed the children with relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Case of the Captain's Mistress | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...plump, little old lady who lived out her declining years in piety and good works, she gave an estimated 1,000,000 pesos ($112,000) a year to charity. She could well afford it; her family, which had given Argentina one of its most distinguished Presidents (Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 1922-28), owned a good million acres of rich grazing land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Even unto Death | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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