Word: bianco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction was halted for months on end because the Chilean and Argentine Congresses did not vote funds (total cost: $30 million...
Kiss of Death is the story of a burglar named Nick Bianco (Victor Mature), and of the difficulties he encounters first as a criminal, then in trying to extricate himself from the underworld. Nick is paroled from Sing Sing when his wife's suicide, his love for his small daughters, and a partner's treachery cause him to turn state's evidence. Thereafter he belongs, body & soul, to Assistant District Attorney D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy). His liberty depends on his cooperativeness as a stool pigeon. His life, and the safety of his children and his second...
...lusty, loudmouthed darling of Britain's music halls, 49-year-old Gracie Fields, was a near casualty of the war. When Gracie and her Italian husband, Monty Banks (Mario Bianco), quit England one jump ahead of the Luftwaffe in 1940, the British press and public hooted bitterly. It was only to save Monty, an enemy alien, from pokey, Gracie explained from...
Miss Fenner recommends as "good books to read aloud in family groups": Hugh Lofting's Story of Doctor Dolittle, Margery Bianco's Street of Little Shops, Walter Brooks's To and Again, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, Howard Pyle's Robin Hood and Wonder Clock, Arthur Chrisman's Shen of the Sea, Stephen Benét's Book of Americans...