Word: luca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Second Try? In Toronto, Motorist Luca Bratevich went to jail for drunken driving and backing through a red light...
...irreligious, unscrupulous and dishonest. Of the three Venetian rules-"A little Mass in the morning, a little gamble in the afternoon, and a little lady in the evening"-he paid lip service to the first, indulged rarely in the second, concentrated wholeheartedly on the third. While priest of San Luca in Venice, he took as his mistress Angioletta Bellaudi, a married woman who had been little better than a prostitute since the age of ten. Their first child barely missed being born on a sidewalk, with Father da Ponte probably acting as midwife ("The kind of incident that happens every...
...same time, Col. Luca C. McGrath, Deputy Commandant of the WACs, revealed that the Army had begun a similar program. "We have already enrolled 187 women, and expect to get many more," Col. McGrath said...
...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
...earthy, emotional Eve with lusty appetites. Her private life was a steaming contusion. In 1935 she married Goffredo Aiessandnm, a movie director. One day she trailed him to a rendezvous with another woman, hinted her displeasure by ramming her car into his. They were separated. Anna loves her son Luca now 13 and stricken with polio, with a fierce protective passion that motivates much of her acting. She is grimly determined to leave him rich when she dies, and she probably will: under the soft schedule of Italian taxes, her take-home pay over the last ten years has been...