Word: cesario
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...prosperous villagers of Spilamberto in North Italy raged with frustration when they looked down on the neighboring village of San Cesario. One might have thought the shoe would be on the other foot: Spilamberto's 3,500 people thrive on the yield of their vineyards, their orchards, and their explosives factory; San Cesario's 1,500 citizens live on lower ground, where the uncertain waters of the Panaro River often overflow into the vineyards and the groves of apple and cherry trees. But San Cesario has what Spilamberto wants: a small bronze cannon with a broken breech. Last...
...Cannon. On feast days, the Spilambertians brought the cannon to the border of the villages, shot it off in the direction of San Cesario. At festivals, San Cesarians shouted, "Give us back our cannon, swindlers," and the Spilambertians replied, "Come and get it, cowards...
Some Mexican laborers disbanded their camp at Porterville, Calif, last week There was no work on the farms, no food, no place to go. Cesario Delgado and ten others decided they would make for Old Mexico by way of Bakersfield. Ysobel Nunez and Alexandro Deloa said they were going to take their families to Fresno, maybe find winter work there. Bernardo Ries said he would go along. Cesario Delgado hiked over to a doctor's barn and stole a sack of barley, which he distributed among the parting families. With dull adios they scattered...
...barley which Cesario Delgado foraged at Porterville was rat & squirrel bait. It had been poisoned with thallium chloride. Thallium is one of the rare metals. It stands in the periodic system of the elements between mercury and lead. Close neighbors are gold, platinum and bismuth. Nearby is radium. Thallium is deadly poison itself, poisons every compound it goes into. None of them can be discerned by taste, smell or feel...
Happily, the second act was much better. Miss Cowl as Viola strode about very bravely, and even if she did wave her hands about with her usual abandon, she was very pleasant. It is true that she was a thoroughly feminine Cesario, but she is so accomplished an actress that the distortion was unnoticed. Maria as played by Jessie Ralph was happily an oldish and slightly vulgar wench, and hence a very fitting companion for the raucous Sir Toby...