Word: emelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breach of promise verdict obtained by Emelia Tersini, London waitress, against colossal Primo Camera, and to Camera's ensuing petition in bankruptcy (TIME, April 10; et seq.): denial by the New York Supreme Court of Signorina Tersini's application to have a receiver appointed for the $16,000 earned by Camera when he won the heavyweight championship from Jack Sharkey (TIME, July 10). Champion Camera-who last week was picking up change by personal appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said...
...Manhattan monstrous, acromegalic Primo Camera appeared before a referee in bankruptcy, sequel to a breach of prom ise verdict for $14,380.25 obtained against him by one Emelia Tersini, London wait ress (TIME, March 24, 1930). Demanded the referee: "Have you any money at all?" Camera : "I dono. That don't intrust me." Referee: "Do you know what a petition in bankruptcy is?" Camera: "Sure. Broke." Referee: "Is that all you know . . .?" Camera: "Yeah...
...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...
...breakfasts on cornflakes which he prefers to pulverize by wrapping them up in a bath-towel and pounding the towel on the floor. Friendly, sociable, he likes to frighten the patrons of cabarets with his ferocious grin. For dancing companions, he prefers smallish, plump girls to one of whom (Emelia Tersini) his engagement was rumored and denied during the last year...
Primo Camera, whopping big Italian fisticuffer, denied that he would marry a Miss Emelia Tersini of London. His manager characterized the affair as "merely a flirtation." He is 6 ft. 7 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. She is 5 ft. 7, brunette, comely...