Word: adriano
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...Adriano Theatre in Rome the Blackshirts roared. First they roared with laughter. Then with anger. Then with exultation...
...Huesca front, assorted Leftist dispatches, while omitting to say who was actually in command, described a General Cahue as "killed," said his successor, Hungarian Communist General Matei Jalka Lukacs, "died when a shell hit his moving car," reported the Huesca command had passed to an "Italian radical," Adriano Nathan, then described him as dead with a bullet through his head...
...space of a few seconds. Even quicker was the rabbitlike dive of the judge under his bench. Jurymen fled so precipitously that one slipped and broke an arm. A stray dum-dum bullet wounded, probably fatally, the distinguished correspondent of the great Italian daily Gionale d' Italia, Signor Adriano Del Vecchio...
...flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain Ferrarin, famed Rome-to-Tokyo flyer. Lieutenant Adriano Bacula, 218.006 miles an hour, was third...
...when an accident gave him a chance to flee from an unpleasant wife, a snarling mother-in-law, unbearable surroundings. The identification of a stray corpse as his own covered his tracks completely by officially removing him from the lists of the living. He started a new life as Adriano Meis-in many respects a more pleasant one, for he made money and fell in love. But circumstance again betrayed him, and Adriano Meis was forced into a pretended suicide-to reappear in his home town as Mattia Pascal, pay visits to his own tombstone, and discover cover his wife...