Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PASTOSZAR, PASTUSZAR, way ZAK!: shouted DI MOTTley throng...
HARVARD DARTMOUTH Di Blasio (190) LE Beeman (207) Bradlee (200) LT Eberle (215) Davis (200) LG Price (205) O'Brien (210) C Staley (190) Bender (205) RG Young (205) Sedgwick (217) RT Bailey (205) Mazzone (195) RE Rowe (205) Henry (195) OB Clayton (195) Roohe (185) LH Dey (193) Moffie (175) RH Isbey (195) Shafer (193) FB Carey...
...jayvees, using a Columbia-style offense, tested the patched-up varsity defense. Bottenfield replaced Roche as defensive left halfback and Shafer spelled Bob Di Blasio, who wasn't at practice, at right half. After a while Nick Athans and Walsh came on and Lowenstein went in at safety for Healey...
Hair on the Chest. Singing so that back-row listeners could actually heaf was another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
Mystic Meditations. He describes the praying mantis, "or, as they say in Provence, lou Prégo Diéou, the Pray-to-God," with keen observation and lively imagination. "Her long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon...