Word: lire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...
...oldest horse race,* anything goes. Since the jockeys ride for the honor of the Siena town wards (which bear such symbolic names as Giraffe, Dragon, Unicorn and Wave), partisan passions begin to rise well before race day. This year Unicorn hired away (for a rumored 900,000 lire) the Giraffe's jockey, a movie stunt rider and a two-time winner named Pietrino. Pietrino, a Polio veteran much in demand, had been known to change colors before...
...Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
While most of the U.S. movie industry was prudently cutting production costs at home last week, its biggest studio was on a spending jag in Rome. Using $4,000,000 in blocked Italian lire and $1,000,000 in frozen sterling (for British actors), M-G-M began production on what promised to be the most colossal film spectacle of all time...
When the Rossellini baby was born last February in the guarded seclusion of Rome's Villa Margherita Clinic, eager-beaver U.S. and Italian photographers fell all over each other in the rush for an exclusive picture of mother & child. Enthusiastic bidders priced their interest at 5,000,000 lire ($8,000), and newsmen tried every imaginable method of invading the clinic, from offering bribes to the nuns on duty to scaling walls and pretending that their own wives were in the maternity division. But nobody got the picture...