Word: neapolitan
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...Umberto Primo was bright with flags: seven Russian, one American, no British and a spate of Italian with the arms of the House of Savoy removed. Three of Italy's antiroyalist parties-Communists, Socialists and Carlo Sforza's Actionists-brought out some 7,000 cheering, rain-soaked Neapolitans to boo Badoglio and the King, shout fiercely for a republic. The biggest meeting so far permitted by the Allies, it was a Neapolitan answer to Churchill's endorsement of their unwanted government.* The show ended with a ragged Partisan from Marshal Tito on stage, shouting "Down with...
Barber's Boy. Jimmy was born Feb. 10, 1893, on Manhattan's swarming Lower East Side, the youngest of three boys and a girl. His mother was a Neapolitan, and gave Jimmy her nose. His father, Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper, Jimmy lathered the faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely...
...King suddenly visited Naples. Street crowds ganged around his open car, cheered him lustily, made many wonder whether his appeal to the masses of Italy had been underestimated. Next day, on the 28th anniversary of Italy's armistice with Austria in World War I, some 2,000 Neapolitan students chanted "Away with the King!", cheered speakers who denounced the monarchy's ties to Fascism. Still unanswered was the large question: Could Vittorio Emanuele III keep his crown...
...back we ran, thanking our stars for our steel helmets and casting contemptuous glances out toward the Neapolitan plain, where puny bombs and shells still were bursting. It seems we still have a lot to learn about destructive forces...
Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...