Word: neapolitan
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...most valuable books in the collection is an autograph album which was owned by Camillo Cerdogm, a Neapolitan Nobleman who succeeded in getting Milton's signature...
...have seen his palette," wrote his friend and compatriot by birth, Andre Kormendi, last month. "It had almost no colors. It was like a strip of fog. . . . One saw tiny dabs of Neapolitan yellow, a little blue and green, but all of it melted into the black-white-grey which covered his palette softly as the dusk covered his studio...
Disagreeing radically with the seismologists, Naples' dour Cardinal Ascalesi, guardian of St. Januarius' skull, insisted that the real cause of the earthquake was the indecent dresses of Neapolitan women...
Strictly Dishonorable. In a speak-easy whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...
...question, "Don't you know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?" a typical, tattered, cheerful Neapolitan will reply, "Maybe in your country, Signore (shrug), that...