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Word: miguelito (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably the best-known star in the world. In various foreign countries, he is known as Comondogo Mickey, el Raton Miguelito, Miguel Pericote, Topolino, Michel Souris, Miki Kuchi, Mikki Maus, Musse Pigg, Mickey Maus, Mickey Hiireke, Kiki Mavz'a, Mikkel Mus, Mickely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...late John Frederick Huckel, son-in-law of Fred Harvey, the railroad restaurant man. Huckel got interested in sand paintings 26 years ago, when he was looking for an Indian motif to decorate a Harvey hotel lobby in Gallup, N.Mex. He asked a Navajo medicine man named Miguelito to put some on paper for him. Miguelito was hesitant, but after trying one and coming to no harm from the Powers, he and his fellow medicine men painted more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good Medicine | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Man of Affairs | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Outside of the presidential palace, Miguelito is less filial, more dashing. When Hollywood starlets like Jinx Falkenburg and Jacqueline Dalya trip into town, he entertains them with gay parties, sends them perfume and jeweled trinkets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Man of Affairs | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span three octaves without turning a hair, and Cuba's dionysian Miguelito Valdes, who suggests a three-power compromise between Cab Galloway, Orson Welles and Rube Bandleader Spike Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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