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Word: tronador (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oops. Near Llao-Llao, Argentina, when the Hotel Tronador missed its tame puma, an attendant sallied into the forest, wondered why the puma he caught acted so annoyed, fainted dead away when he discovered that in his absence the pet had come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Leila Drew rang the gate bell of the modernistic house at No. 1770 Calle Tronador. Inside, she passed two babies playing at a yard man's knee. She asked to see Señora Diligenti. The Señora was nervous and reluctant, but after a woman-to-woman sales talk Mrs. Drew got a look at the other three babies, in neat yellow cribs in a sunny downstairs nursery. She even had her hands on a picture of all five, when forceful Papa Diligenti (whose name means just what it looks like) came in and took it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Full House | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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