Word: paolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York publishing house yesterday solicited upperclassmen by mail to buy "The Sexual Relations of Mankind," a book by Paolo Mantegazza, professor of Physiology, Ethnology and Anthropology at the Universities of Milan and Pisa...
...master, Leonardo's genius unfolded. He learned in a few months almost all that Verrocchio could teach, and soared on through other arts and sciences. He soon played a lute, his countrymen said, more wondrously than any man alive; and the Florentine scientist, Paolo Toscanelli, found the country boy his most precocious pupil...
...Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery's Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery threatened to become a defensive keystone for the Germans, and U.S. bombers leveled it.*The painting, by 17th-Century Paolo de Matteis, disappeared amid the rubble. Officially it was written off as a lost art treasure...
Though they sound as if they have been playing together all their lives, the Italiano was formed only after the war. First Violinist Paolo Borciani rounded up the others-Elisa, Violist Piero Farulli and Cellist Franco Rossi-on a promise of "some money and good food." After less than four months of practice they gave their first concert. They have had their hands full ever since...
...charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...