Word: leghorn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...around 1800, an already notorious teen-age violinist arrived in Leghorn to play a concert-with no violin. His name was Nicolo Paganini, and he had pawned his fiddle to pay off a pressing gambling debt. A wealthy merchant offered to lend him a matchless Guarneri del Gesu and, when the performance was over, refused to take it back. "The Guarneri is yours," he cried. "My hands shall never profane the violin which you have touched...
Dark, Italian-born Dick Ehrman speaks five languages (Italian, French, German, English, Polish). Before he joined A. P. as a stringer in Florence, he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army and a disk jockey for the Army's radio station in Leghorn. His colleagues say he has a "weird quality of seeming to be the same nationality as the person he is covering." This weird quality paid off last month, when Japanese Crown Prince Akihito visited Rome; Ehrman was mistaken for a member of the prince's party, admitted to the official reception...
Died. John Home Burns, 36, Harvard-educated schoolteacher turned novelist best known for his 1947 bestselling portrayal of American G.I.s in war-torn Naples (The Gallery) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Leghorn, Italy...
...lashing rain-heavy southwest wind which the Italians call libeccio roared down on the U.S. refrigerator ship Grommet Reefer one night last week outside the crammed seaport of Leghorn. In the raging seas, the ship's engines were powerless as eggbeaters. Within minutes, the Grommet Reefer was hung up on a reef only 150 yards from shore...
...Grommet Reefer; one by one, the survivors were plucked off to the resounding applause of the onlookers and set ashore. By nightfall, the 37-hour ordeal was over, and the happy crew was giving a banquet for Captain Saukant, last man off the broken Reefer, and in many a Leghorn household that night, Italians feasted happily on American turkeys, which tasted a little of diesel oil and salt water...