Word: massa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
...massa runs, haha...
...think Ole Massa Billy has as much equipment for palavering as most of the practicing experts-a typewriter, a byline, and a heck of a nerve...
...wrote Old Uncle Ned, the first of his famed slave songs (Old Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home, Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground) for a glee club which he directed. His marriage to Jane McDowell produced two great songs: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, in her honor; and Old Black Joe, celebrating the McDowell family butler. For $15 Foster sold the performing rights to his greatest-selling song, Old Folks at Home. It started as Way Down Upon de Pedee Ribber but Stephen, not liking the sound of that, consulted an atlas and discovered Florida...