Word: neapolitan
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...buildings seem to teeter perilously close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...
Most of the paintings had originally hung in the Naples Museum, and would eventually return there. Early in the war, the Neapolitan curators stored their collection at Monte Cassino, which then seemed safe from Allied bombs. Just before the ancient Benedictine monastery was bombed to rubble, German commanders ordered the art shipped to Rome. But one freightcarful rumbled right through to Berlin; some of the boys in the Hermann Goring Division figured it would make a nice birthday present for the boss...
Biographer A. J. Hanna, professor of history at Rollins College, is handicapped by generally skimpy sources, but gives tantalizing glimpses of an ex-Crown Prince wearing homespun, of tea served in a log house with Napoleonic gold spoons and damask napkins bearing the royal Neapolitan crest...
...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, last week, the young Irishman said: "Sure and I haven't done so bad." For his first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish legato as rippling as McCormack...
...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...