Word: marchetti
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...Padelford, wearing traditional white dress and veil and carrying a bouquet of heat-stricken gardenias, chewed quietly upon a wad of gum, as did her three bridesmaids. Constantly eased out of camera range by Bridegroom Hazen, Miss Padelford was only occasionally visible on the television screen. Municipal Judge Joseph Marchetti, who performed the ceremony, was inundated with confetti (rice will not televise) by a prop man with deplorable aim. After the service, while the organ moaned through Lohengrin, relatives of the bride and groom made a mad rush to congratulate the newlyweds...
...Russian bombers raided the port of Turku, set fire to its 700-year-old castle, and the Finns retaliated with a remarkably successful raid on the Estonian island of Oesel in the Baltic, damaging the Russian air base. The three Finnish raiders were led by an Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti bomber...
...from their coastal bases on the Italian peninsula last week rose the dripping hulls of 80 Savoia-Marchetti seaplane bombers. Their glossy-headed young pilots turned them north, over Ostmark, over Bohemia-Moravia, over German Poland and East Prussia and up the Baltic to the besieged shores of Finland...
...occupied as Secretary of State and which had been considered his "cell" (given the number 13) during his conclave. He telephoned his sisters Elizabella and Giuseppina told them his election gave them his blessing. He visited a devoted friend who had been ill during the conclave-Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggini. the ailing Prince raised himself to bow, murmering: "Holy Father. . . ." But the Pope said: "Ah, not for tonight. . . . Let me still be your Eugenio to my Francesco...
Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers and German Junkers, with Italian, German and Spanish crews, appeared over Barcelona at altitudes of some 16,000 feet. They were thus nearly invisible, could be only faintly heard, and their bombs were preceded by no warning scream, such as an artillery shell gives. There was just a "swiss" and instantaneously thereafter the crash of 600 pounds of bomb tearing down through floor after floor of a building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering...