Word: lombards
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...uxorious Bourbon King Philip V, "who could not do without a woman in his bed, but who would allow into it no woman that was not his wife." This royal singularity Alberoni met with prelatical resourcefulness by promoting the charms of Princess Elisabeth Farnese of Parma as "a good Lombard girl . . . stuffed with butter and Parmesan cheese." Philip mar ried...
...Secretary Carol (Ella Raines) realizes that somebody has stopped a lot of mouths with a lot of money. She hounds the nervous bartender. He is killed by a car. She starts pumping the drummer. He is strangled. Escorted by her boss's good friend, Jack Lombard (Franchot Tone), she even locates the maker of the special hat and its elusive wearer. But nothing really becomes clear to her until Good Friend Lombard tips his paranoiac hand...
...GRINNING PIG - Nap Lombard - < Simon & Schuster ($2). Two successful slayings and sundry near misses by a pig-masked killer keep a whole crew of English detectives - amateur and professional - on the jump. An amusing, almost unguessable, exciting yarn, as bright as paint and thoroughly unprincipled...
...Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips Whidden, Richard Robinson Wood, Edward Woodward...
...Lombard and Piedmontese factories last month a sudden wave of simultaneous demonstrations broke down production schedules. This month the strikes ceased-after Mussolini granted a wage increase to war workers...