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Word: checchi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Congress Hotel, Prima Donna Mafalda Favero of Milan's famed La Scala washed shirts for Baritone Danilo Checchi, who was stopping at another hotel. Favero pawned some of her jewelry, cried: "The first time I go to the jewelers to sell and not to buy. Maybe I get a mask and gun and go out Chicago style to get some money. This experience never was in the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Without a Song | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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