Word: neapolitan
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...parlate, big and small, all over the island, which is about the size of Vermont. This week the big attraction will be Premier Scelba, the lawyer son of a Sicilian sharecropper. The Communists, bringing over 800 mainland activists, staged almost 200 parlate. The Monarchists with funds from their lavish Neapolitan leader, Achille Lauro, passed out empty wallets at one rally and promised that a Monarchist regime would fill them with lire...
Gangsters deported from the U.S. to Italy usually suffer from acute nostalgia for the old easygoing, easy-taking American ways. Last week a deported Chicago hoodlum named Frank Frigenti remembered enough of his American education to organize a sort of Neapolitan public-relations campaign. Frigenti was once condemned to the electric chair for murdering his mother-in-law, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment, ending in deportation...
While washing his hands and singing a gay Neapolitan air, he stopped and remarked casually: "My father cut his throat," then went back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss...
...Sofia Loren (38, 24, 37), 19, is the youngest of Italy's screen queens. Insiders give some of the credit for her rapid rise to her harddriving, redheaded Neapolitan mother, who hovers incessantly in the background, pushing her daughter to the front. Honey-blonde Sofia got her start as Miss Rome, went on to dramatic school and a modeling job. She has a thick Neapolitan accent, and in the sultry Roman evenings, loves to turn on the record player, throw off her clothes and dance...
...taste were evident throughout the exhibition, from the lacy finery she wore on festive occasions (exhibited on dressmaker's dummies at the entrance) to the staggering array of bibelots that had caught the royal eye. There were finely fashioned items of Chinese jade, Chelsea porcelain, Battersea enamel, Neapolitan piqué (tortoise shell or ivory inlaid with gold or silver), case after case of tiny, exquisite baubles, splendid examples of the jeweler's and goldsmith's art. Of small boxes alone -for snuff, beauty patches, or just for decoration-there were 550, plus 120 etuis, 150 scent flasks...