Word: senor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check for $4,000. Following instructions of the President [i.e., Batista], I endorsed the check to Senor Aldo Baroni...
...firearms, assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion. Said he: "I am a freethinker. What can the outside world offer my family? Prostitution, crime, drunkenness, rock 'n' roll and the blasted television. No senor, none of that for my family...
...just as funny offstage as on, Backus loves the irony that he now lives a far more lavish version of what he fled. Though his business manager gives him only $20 a week, Backus expects to earn $125,000 this year. The towels in his Hollywood house are embossed Senor and Senora, his party guests love the lampshade act, and year-round his wife keeps the swimming pool at a decadent 89°. "On cold winter nights," says he, "the steam rising from it causes the place to look like the set of Wuthering Heights...
...taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta gets down to running Argentina...
...resign from the Council after one year in the Philippines' favor. With that understanding, the delegates elected the Yugoslavs by a decisive 43 out of 70 votes. That done, delegates stood up for a traditional minute of silent "prayer or meditation" and then, to the bang of Senor Maza's gavel, scurried home. It had been a contentious, tiring 13 weeks for all. and particularly for Assembly President Maza, who was also besieged by an increasing round of diplomatic teas, dinners and cocktail parties. "You have to drink the same Scotch or the same Manhattans," he complained...