Word: gallos
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Screamed tough, wiry Communist Leader Otello Barbi: "You cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only...
...rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo: "Why did you sit on the Clock Committee watching it do nothing?" Checchi jumped over the table, shouted: "I wasn't going to do propaganda for Father Bernardoni." The priest interrupted: "At least, have respect for the habit I wear...
...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...
...statute sharply curbing noises after 11 p.m. would be strictly enforced. After that hour cars must not sound Klaxons, streetcars must not use air whistles, jukeboxes must be played only behind closed doors, people must not shout either in joy or in anger, and anyone wishing to give a gallo (serenade) might do so only with police permission...
...Fortune Gallo, at 64, is proud of his balanced-budget opera company, proud that the San Carlo has given many U.S. singers (among them Queena Mario, Richard Bonelli, eight others who graduated to the Metropolitan) their first big opportunities. His latest cause for pride is pretty, blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, who brought a fresh, appealing voice and promising style to her Mimi, Micaela and Nedda during the last fortnight. A former telephone girl from Livingston, N.J., she later did secretarial work and scrubbed floors to pay for singing lessons. Grace Moore met her in a radio studio, took...