Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shake hands and chat. One day he posed for photographs with five polio-stricken children who will tour the country on behalf of the March of Dimes campaign. The kids were chirpy as crickets. He seemed both pleased and honored when five-year-old Linda Sue Brown of San Antonio took to tweaking his right ear during the proceedings...
Next morning 700 drivers, mostly from the Cardenas Club, gathered at the Trolleymen's Alliance hall for an indignation meeting. Just as things were boiling nicely, Mexico City's nail-hard traffic chief, General Antonio Gómez Velasco, drew up outside with two heavily armed riot squads. "Fifteen minutes to come out and get back to work," the cops warned over a portable loudspeaker. "We are protecting the public of Mexico!" When the cabbies stood firm, the police let fly with tear-gas projectiles...
...wife Giuseppina pushed him into the movie. With a snapshot of their ten-year-old son Enrico, she had answered a call at De Sica's office for a small boy. Maggiorani was in the snapshot too, and the movie people liked his looks for the role of Antonio. He balked. He had worked for 16 years as a machinist in the Breda steel works, and the job was good enough to support his wife and three children. "A steady job," he protested, "is better than all the quick riches in the world...
...manager called in Maggiorani. "Your companions are grumbling," he said. "They claim you made millions from the movie. It's not fair to fire them and keep you." So Maggiorani was fired. "Never mind," said Giuseppina cheerfully. "Since your role in The Bicycle Thief you have actually become Antonio. You feel downtrodden, and now your bicycle has been stolen. We will .merely tell De Sica you want to make another picture...
...Antonio, Mrs. Elma Dill Spencer's watchdog, missing while her house was being looted, showed up later and attacked the cop who came to investigate...