Word: canina
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John J. Conlon, a co-owner of Canina's Deli and Catering, says people of "all races" live in the neighborhood, including Italian, Irish and Cuban Americans...
...Canina's, the Haggerty and the West Cambridge Youth Center, which is housed in the school, were all closed. As birds chirped on Cushing Street, only a few residents could be seen outside their homes...
...There is a common European wild rose called the dog rose (Rosa canina). It has stout, hooked thorns...
...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...
...Volpone is fox in Italian: the names of all the important characters in the play are Italian words. Mosca means gadfly: Canina (a prostitute who tries to marry Volpone) is bitch...