Word: delle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guerra, Fame, Distruzione." Sulphurous lava, 2,500° F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge. Glowing boulders rattled from the mainstream, set orchards and vineyards afire. The flood engulfed the village of San Sebastiano: first a stone house, then the yellow school and the little church, finally the wineshop...
...they long ago flagged and climbed aboard the U.S. train. Their German religion has given way to Congregationalism. Few of the young generation can speak a German word. Whenever a Warden boy leaves for the war there is a typical American party (coffee, food, Farmer in the Dell, Drop the Handkerchief) in the school basement. Their Americanization is ably abetted by the high-school faculty, which puts great emphasis on the history of the U.S. and the State of Washington...
...Young, along with John Reed, Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, founded the leftist and pacifist Masses. When the U.S. got into World War I, his most famous cartoon, the savage Having Their Fling, helped put Art and colleagues on trial for sedition, a capital crime. For seven days & nights during that trial, Max Eastman could not sleep a wink...
...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...Long Island Sound's Larchmont Race Week: Joseph Merrill's Feather, in the International class; Romeyn Ever-dell's Star boat Bolt; Don Peterson's Comet Blue Peter (only boat in the Race Week fleet to take five straight races). Star class's Undertaker-Yachtsman Frank Campbell, too busy to compete in the entire week's races, came to life over the weekend: his Rascal breezed home first in the final day's racing, giving Campbell his tenth straight victory in the weekly Long Island Sound Y.R.A. championship series...