Word: caballero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demands in the country at large are far behind those at Harvard and Wellesley. The "Prisoner's Song" and "Ramona" still have a large sale, but are completely dead so far as college buyers are concerned "Gay Caballero" is a best seller at present, but only two have been sold at Harvard and Wellesley...
...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...
...issue of August 20 states that ... McAdoo got himself up in the red and black velvet of a caballero and up onto a prancing-mare. Mare and McAdoo were chief prancers ..." and prints a picture signed by Wide World...
Apropos of that caballero and equestrian tycoon, William Gibbs McAdoo, recently depicted with Mexican accoutrements en grande tenue, and set forth as mounting, "up onto a prancing mare," (TIME, Aug. 20), kindly permit the following correction; -"Hell! that aint no mare...
...Felipe Urzua, onetime President of the Chilean Supreme Court. Another is Senor Rafael Luis Gumucio, Vice President of the Chilean Conservative party, and onetime President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. Still another is Senor Enrique Caballero, so "Red" that Chilean Capitalists have elected him President of the Association of Employers of Chile...