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Word: peccadillos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love duet with him, he deposited a hot potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against me three times, maybe four times. He . . . He . . ." Caruso was tried for disorderly conduct before an adoring throng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Neapolitan | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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