Word: enrico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci; Tenor Enrico Caruso; Baritones Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett...
...Enrico Caruso, 38-year-old son of the late, great tenor, got into a spat with a woman bus passenger in Chicago, wound up in court charged with disorderly conduct. The woman said straphanging Enrico refused to let her squeeze by him, stamped on her foot, slapped her. Enrico said she shoved him, called him a beetle. He apologized in court; the case was dismissed...
...such airy reasons Fiorello H. (for Enrico) LaGuardia was in deep trouble last week. Hard upon him was the quadrennial mayoralty election; hotter than ever on his neck was the breath of the unkillable Tammany Tiger. And Tammany had a new argument: "New York wants a full-time Mayor...
...Riviera castle near Cannes, sultry, Cinevamp Pola Negri, 41, who quit German films in 1938 and denied that Adolf Hitler was her friend, complained that the straitened fare of Vichy's France had cost her 18 lb. Tenor Enrico Caruso's American-born widow, Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president...
Foreign correspondents in Rome, who tried to get facts to support the rumors, got complete denials. Rome's United Press office telephoned an old friend, Journalist Enrico Lelli of Milan, only to hear a languid reply: "The reports regarding Milan are ridiculous and fantastic. I have not seen any Germans and as for riots, that's crazy." Nevertheless, there were plenty of German soldiers in Italy, as the Germans proved by releasing a photograph of troops marching through an unnamed city (see cut). Finally, while the Fascist Party held clamorous pep meetings in the supposedly treasonable areas...