Word: tupinamba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just outside the Federal District limits, where pesos change hands with every spur-thrust. Thousands play la bolita, an illegal policy game paying off 80 t01 on the last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans' cafés such as the Tupinamba, big money is bet on which matador will get the privilege of cutting off a bull's ear in the Sunday corrida...
...Cafe Tupinamba, favorite hangout of Mexico City's journalists, politicians, actors, bookies, bullfighters, etc., completed Ralph's education. There he picked up odd jobs reporting for local newspapers, editing the leaflet given tourists at the bullring. There his "I just heard what you said and I want to set you straight on that" has been the start of many a warm (and newsworthy) friendship, many a warmer argument...