Word: fausto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the temper increased. Communist Deputy Fausto Gullo, a peevish pout on his face, charged his enemies with the old tactics of Lysistrata.* Cried he: "These last elections have been shameful. The government used unthinkable methods to win its majority. Do you want an example? Priests openly counseled wives to go on a 'bedroom strike' if the Communists won the elections...
...train from Rome to Milan sallow, soft-voiced Communist Leader Fausto Gullo could only get an upper berth. A young fellow traveler respectfully offered his lower berth to the former Minister of Justice. But Gullo said: "It's my fault for not having booked early enough. I was late. I'm grateful, but really, one should pay for being late...
...trip back to Rome, Fausto Gullo, his penance done, had managed to secure a lower berth...
Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...
Bidu Sayao: Celebrated Operatic Arias (with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). With the help of recording engineers, who build up her graceful little voice, Brazil's Bidu comes through handsomely. The eight arias are mostly from the roles (in Manon, La Bohème) which made Sayao famous at the Met. Performance: good...