Word: arrigo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dentists could dismiss this problem if all their patients were as stoical as one of Dr. Arrigo Piperno's. Dr. Piperno, who plays the violin and has four clinics in Rome, was graduated from Chicago Dental College 25 years ago. Last week, trim and handsome, his iron-gray mustache carefully waxed, he was back in Chicago to tell old & new friends about his No. 1 patient for the past eight years, Benito Mussolini...
...land . . . my race, which in Poland suffered inconceivable persecutions") and Maliella in The Jewels of the Madonna ("a vamp type . . . brilliant temperament of a feminine mind"). In 1924 Arturo Toscanini, then director of La Scala in Milan, offered her the leading soprano role in the world premiere of Arrigo Boito's posthumous Nerone. Regretfully she declined: she would not break her U. S. contracts (later she became a U. S. citizen). Maestro Toscanini postponed the premiere so that she might appear in it. Giacomo Puccini heard her in Nerone, stipulated that she should be engaged for the first performance...