Word: ghighi
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy little column in 1939 aroused three young members of the Warrenton, Va., horsy set, who abducted "Ghighi" Cassini from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered him on a lonely road. He took refuge in the Warrenton home of one Major Austin McDonnell. Next year, when he became a U.S. citizen, Cassini married the Major's daughter, "Bootsie...