Word: attilio
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...parishioners in Tuscany remembered Don Attilio Bellachioma as a compassionate man who spent most of his time, and all his money, distributing charity to the poor. Even after he retired, half-blind after 37 years of parish work, to a home for aged priests in Perugia, he scraped together regular contributions for his favorite orphanages...
...Attilio had only one vice-he loved to gamble. Each week, almost as regularly as his charitable contributions, he would spend a few lire on a lottery ticket. "I never hope to win," he once admitted, "because I don't believe that our Lord could use the lottery as a means of helping people needing help...
Professor Mario Attilio Levi, a lean, walrus-mustached scholar of 60, is well known in Italy as an authority on Dante; among his colleagues he is also known to be a trifle absentminded. Riding home on a streetcar to his apartment in Rome that hot July day in 1948, he was as usual too engrossed in a book to keep close watch on his packages. But when he got to his stop and missed them, Professor Levi raised a fervent alarm...
Home Ties. In Huntsville, Tex., Convict Levurt Whitehurst, who had escaped from a state prison home, checked back in, explaining, "I went to see my grandma." The Book. In Brooklyn, Joseph Attilio, who made the mistake of denting the fender of a car belonging to Patrolman Edward Baldini, was charged with 1) driving without a license, 2) having improper plates, 3) leaving the scene of an accident, 4) dangerous driving...
Margarita obliged, and was prompty mouse-trapped completely out of the play, leaving Vince a hole big enough to drive a truck through. Brother Bob, on the Crimson bench at the time, tried to deny that the man mouse-trapped was Attilio, but with corroboration by the sports scribes, made like the Arabs...