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Word: sombrero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What they lack in finesse (a good deal, for some of them), they make up with luck in being associated with a generally good thing...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...Puzzle. Author Coccioli has told the life and death of Indians of Tepoztlan, which parallel the Gospels in elaborate detail. Skill, insight and a rich, image-decked style make this chronicle more than a theological teaser or a jigsaw puzzle about just which Biblical figure is lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery Mosaic | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...onetime barber and carpenter, Pedro Infante broke into the movies 15 years ago and quickly rose to fame as a last man with a gun or a girl, and a mellow man with a lyric. Dressed in his familia charro jacket and wide sombrero, he drew mobs wherever he went in Latin America -and most of the crowd was female, proudly claimed 14 children, legitimate and illegitimate. His wife Maria Luisa put up with his escapades for 18 years but he divorced her five years ago and married Actress Irma Dorantes. Just two weeks ago the Supreme Court nullified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: A Star Is Dead | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...portrayed by Actor O'Brian, 31, onetime Marine drill instructor, Wyatt Earp now rides herd on the youngsters, makes them eat their cereal (Cheerios) and brush their teeth (with Gleem). His impeccable dress-frock coat, striped pants, silk vest, black sombrero-is a good example for the junior blue-jeans set ("Mothers love me"). Western buffs approve of his resemblance to the real Earp (though he omits the handlebar mustache) and his ability to handle such firearms as Earp's long-barreled Buntline Special with authentic eélan-he is perhaps the only regular Western type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High in the Saddle | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...place in the world." He teetered on the concrete border of a Union Square flower bed and praised "one of the greatest civilizations of the world, here on the rim of the Pacific by the Golden Gate." He shook hands in a mixed Negro and Japanese neighborhood, wore a sombrero and scrape and cried "Viva" in a Latin American community, sat at a green-topped table with 16 Chinatown moguls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Swingin1 on the polden Gate | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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