Word: torcuato
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...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...
...Torcuato, Reporter Toryho found the address, an iron-roofed cottage, but it was deserted...
...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...
...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...
...Ortiz, and a Conservative-controlled Senate Committee has ruled that the President is too nearly blind to read the bills he would sign. Disorganized by Ortiz' illness and frightened for Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear favoring cooperation with the Conservatives. Even Radicals are beginning to fear that unless Argentina ends the political strife which has weakened her for two generations, she will commit national harakiri...