Word: campagna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When his Manhattan plot was sold, in 1927, Buyer Anthony Campagna said: "I would have paid $100,000 more for the property if it had had no house...
...long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost $9,000,000. Last week in Manhattan a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan...
Exploits began before this latter- day Benvenuto left his rural play-fields (Newark, N. J.) to cross the game-infested Campagna (the Jersey flats) and seek his fortune in gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels...
Cambridge Y. M. C. A.-M. M. Bobor, L. Campagna, W. W. Torrey, O. B. Gerig, L. D. Egbert, A. Block, A. D. Lippman, W. H. Brinthiger, F. E. Giddings...