Word: bolognas
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Philadelphia is famed for dead heroes, delicate food and municipal mismanagement. Last week it got a new dead hero and a new delicacy. The hero: Samuel von Pufendorf. The delicacy: Bologna. The municipal mismanagement was still right there...
Baron Samuel von Pufendorf, a German lawyer who died in 1694, had once made a pointed citation from the laws of Bologna that the rule "whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity" should not extend to the surgeon "who opened the veins of a person that fell down in the street...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
...shed crocodile tears over 'poor Belgium' or 'poor Holland,' " wrote anonymous Commentator "Blackshirt" in Bologna's Resto del Carlino the day after Germany's new invasion began last week (see p. 22). "It is not for Fascist Italy to lament the fate that has overtaken two sanctionist countries, worm-eaten by democracy and anti-Fascism...
Word has come from the Harvard Observatory that one Eppe Loreta, a librarian of Bologna, Italy, under the Mussolinian sun, has been acclaimed world champion observer of variable stars for the third consecutive year...