Word: bologna
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...sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught out by the two old fogies, the superscamp gains their pardon, and hoodwinks the pair again, by pretending to breathe his last. At the end of the mazelike plot, everyone is wreathed in smiles, especially the audience...
Prodi, who is professor of economics at the University of Bologna, insists that this time, the fall of his country's regime represents a formidable crisis with possible revolutionary implications...
Last year the Agnelli Foundation and a number of other donors in Italy provided additional funds for the purposes of the De Bosis endowment. This generous gift has made possible the welcome appointment of Professor Prodi of Bologna this semester. Henceforth, the Committee hopes to be able to invite a lecturer on some aspect of Italian civilization every year. Myron P. Gilmore Professor of History
...lectureship created more than 40 years ago but vacant until last week, was finally filled when an Italian economics professor arrived from Bologna Thursday as the first Lauro de Bosis Italian Civilization...
Harvard created the de Bosis lectureship in the 1930s to provide financial support for exiles of the then fascist Italian regime, Romani Prodi, an economics professor from the University of Bologna, said yesterday...