Word: gallodoro
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...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Louis Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME, Feb. 25). Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME, Feb. 18). The Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...duke is widely believed to be the father of one of Gallodoro's teen-age street urchins. If anything, this belief rather increases the townspeople's affectionate regard for the old reprobate. But a visiting English writer, his northern sense of fair play still intact, determines to force the duke to do right by the lad. Author Menen saves one ironic twist for the last: the boy almost disowns the duke...
Veined with gentle ribaldry and stocked with bizarre supporting characters, The Duke of Gallodoro is a fictional lighter-than-air craft. Except for some overtalky bits, it offers some of the choicest summer reading of the winter...