Word: nella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into their cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
...schoolteachers as NOT so BAD. It means the rubble of the city that was being swiftly replaced by angular, modern buildings. Martin and Heinrich would just as soon forget the war, and so would their elders, bowed by a dead weight of memory and guilt. Martin's mother Nella, a blonde beauty who looks "exactly like the women pictured in the Nazi books about race-only not so boring." drifts through the years giving and going to dull parties. It seems to her that she is endlessly playing in an endless movie. People answer the phone the way actors...
When she meets the hated Gaseler, the Nazi who was responsible for her husband's death at Kalinovka, Nella has a moment of wild hope that reality has at last broken through the interminable bad movie of life. But the film grinds on, the director calls for the cinema dramatics of the great confrontation scene, and Nella can find neither hatred nor pity in her heart -only boredom with this ridiculous villain. But Grandma, who does not realize she is merely a character actress, demands vengeance. Uncle Albert, as exhausted by heroics as Nella, seeks out Gaseler and knocks...
There was even good dialogue to go with the pictures. In New York, Call Girl Nella ("Don't Call Me Madam") Bogart went on to brag about how the buyers she entertained for a General Electric wholesaler responded by ordering "carloads" of appliances (TIME, March 4). In Washington, Seattle Madam Ann Thompson told senators (see below) that even with support from the Teamsters' Union (membership: 1,400,000), a bawdyhouse chain would not pay in Portland...
...saleswomen, said Nella Bogart's lawyer, the girls gave the company its money's worth. He told of a third occasion in which an unidentified G.E. man brought two big customers up to Nella's Manhattan apartment. "In the course of the evening," said the lawyer, "orders were written for seven carloads of G.E. appliances." Later, one of the customers canceled four of the carloads, then called up and asked Nella for a date. Snapped Nella, according to her lawyer: "You can't come to see me unless you take the order you originally took...