Word: toreros
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...post, Bill O'Dwyer seemed a happy choice for a sunny job. Mexicans were complimented by his political prominence in the U.S., pleased that he is a Catholic, and tickled with his pretty wife and his appreciation of bullfighting. In the bullfighters' Café Tupinamba, a torero seriously explained, "A good fan of the bulls cannot be an imperialist."'And the ballad singers in buses and bars spread the news in a hastily composed corrido...
...Spaniard last week contemplated the doings of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's Prime Minister, and drew a fetching analogy. "When a torero and a toro are in the ring," explained the Spaniard, "sometimes somebody from the audience will jump into the ring with a homemade muleta-which up to that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international espont...
Nehru's friends reported that the Pandit was "disappointed." For the time being, at least, he put his muleta back into his pants. Nobody wanted to jail the spontaneous Pandit, but the torero would be well advised if he kept his eye on the toro and let the esponténeo stew in his own muleta...
...wrote Angelita a letter which fell into the hands of the duke. Don Carlos did what irate fathers always do in zarzuelas: he threatened to pack Angelita off to a convent. To a friend the duke explained: "Mind you, I like Dominguín. He is a fine torero. He has the heart of a lion and the legs of a deer. What's more, he will probably end up much richer than I am. But there is one thing I simply cannot change-his family...
...police headquarters, the jefe de policía was torn between awe of the duke and admiration for the popular torero. Said the jefe: "After all, there is one solution-marriage...