Word: belotti
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...complaint frequently heard in the little Italian hill-town that nothing exciting ever happened there. When indefatigable Lawyer Belotti arranged for the visit of an opera company everyone licked his chops, looked forward longingly. When the company arrived the town went wild. Business boomed, stood still or went backward, according to whether you were...
Innkeeper Malandrini, Lawyer Belotti or dour Priest Don Taddeo. The whole town turned itself into a fiesta, mass meeting, audience, riot. Chorus-girls were billeted everywhere; their sleepless generosity played hob with respectable burghers, set a fad that was followed even by hitherto respectable housewives...
...Lawyer Belotti, self-constituted leader of the worldlings, and Don Taddeo soon, came to grips. The lawyer wanted to show the actors the town's chief relic, an ancient bucket; but the priest had the key, refused to give it up. Feeling ran high; there were fist fights; the fortunes of war wavered. In desperation Don Taddeo even set fire to the inn where Sin kept wakeful nights. In the end he surrendered the key, confessed himself beaten; the bucket was displayed. After four Dionysiac weeks the opera company departed. Shouted Lawyer Belotti: "What are we? A little town...