Word: castel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope, a hot-rodder might say, has a heavy foot. When he drives from Rome to Castel Gandolfo, 79-year-old Pius XII usually leans forward in his Cadillac, stop watch in hand, ready to complain to the chauffeur if the 17.4-mile trip takes 19 instead of 18 minutes...
Winding up a strenuous summer at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XII set off a flurry of concern with reports that he had suffered a return of the hiccup attacks that had endangered his life last winter. But last week, the 78-year-old Pontiff allayed anxiety by maintaining a fast-paced work schedule that included two mass audiences, two special audiences and a 15-minute speech, in addition to his regular routine. In an audience with a group of doctors, the Pope said that he was not yet fully recovered, but must keep to his tasks. As he spoke...
...pilgrims hustled past her premises and up the nearest mountain to the little (pop. 643) village of Castel San Pietro Romano. For there the rumor had it, a goddess enchantingly more substantial had suddenly come to earth among the amorous groves. Gina Lollobrigida (pronounced low-low-bridge-id-ah) was in town to make a movie...
...Class turned indoors to Boston theatres and night clubs with the winter season at hand: "Candida" came to town along with "The Miracle," which was hailed as the apogee of dramatic art, and "Abies Iris Rose" at the Castel Square Theatre, one of the eleven legitimate theatres in town. And the Cantagridgians were delighted with the news that a movie theatre would be constructed in the Square by the fall...
Lately, Guareschi has been feuding with aged (73) ex-Premier Alcide de Gasperi, whom he blames for the fall of the Pella government in January. Two weeks later, Candido carried an article on De Gasperi, referring to him as "the sniper of Castel Gandolfo," and as "cold, ruthless, devoid of all scruple." Along with that, the weekly reproduced a purported letter from De Gasperi, apparently addressed to a British officer in 1944, which called for Allied bombing of Rome as "the only way to break the moral resistance of the Roman people." De Gasperi pronounced the letter a forgery, directed...