Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...
...Kaho (Fox) took a film of Mexican Guerilla Pancho Villa. Villa demanded the picture or Kaho's life. Kaho gave him raw film, escaped with the real...
Before General Obregon proceeded to "take his turn" he broke the power of Bandit Pancho Villa with the decisive victories of Celaya and Guano Juato, which however cost him his right arm, amputated above the elbow after wounds...
...little known men supposed to be Mexican Knights of Columbus, but suspected of being decoy agents of the Calles regime. One Rene Capistran Garza proclaimed himself "Provisional President of Mexico," though he remained in hiding; and the whole movement which claimed to be supported by onetime under "Generals" of Pancho Villa loomed ridiculous. The Government rashly made this "revolt" an excuse for terrorism in the interior...
...Severo Pancho, nimble Filipino, kissed a professional dancing girl in Manila when the lights were low and the music seductive. She brought suit. Last week the Supreme Court of the Philippines decided that a man who kisses a girl in such an environment is a "victim of circumstances"; hence Senor Pancho was "not guilty...