Word: americano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said, not only outrage...
...University was enjoined to permit Architect Warren to erect his inscriptional balustrade Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta, on the ground that it was part of the original architectural plan approved by University authorities years...
...high seas, last week, the liner Sud Americano stopped to rescue an overboard passenger. Passenger Olaf, a cat, sank 26 times, was dragged in as he was sinking the 27th. Seaman's tradition: Anything lost on maiden voyage brings bad luck. Olaf was on Sud Americano's maiden voyage...
...claimed from New York by Italy's King represented the savings of one Antonio Comincio, who sailed from Italy 42 years ago. In Manhattan he earned his bread with pick & shovel, lived as an Americano, though legally a subject of the Italian crown. In 1925 Laborer Comincio died, leaving no will, no heir, and $900 in the bank which duly escheated to New York State...
...California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...