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Word: aficionado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...become Spain's most fashionable resort, with broad, shaded streets and quiet parks and a fresh, clean smell that blew in from the Bay of Biscay. Spain's best bulls and matadores appeared in Santander when the King was there; on hot summer afternoons Alfonso, no aficionado, used to go to the bullfights because it was expected of him, watching with that indifference to pain which is a part of the heritage of all Spaniards. Last week Alfonso was dying in exquisite pain from angina pectoris in Rome, and Santander was swept by a disaster as great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Germany to the Rescue | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...TIME states that Balderas, after having scored a triumph with his first bull, was killed by his second. . . . When Sidney Franklin was in town last week I asked him about this. Franklin had left Mexico City before the accident, but he had a letter from a trusted aficionado there, and this man's account ran as follows: Balderas had indeed had a great success with his first bull. . . . But before he killed, he was caught and tossed. He was not gored, but the horn had ripped one leg of his breeches. He was thus behind the barrera, having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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