Word: aficionado
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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...
...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...