Word: piccolo
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...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
Around the Piccolo. Some pushers run establishments known as "tea pads." The tea pad may be anything from a rented room to a suite in a fashionable hotel. Usually it is dimly lighted with colored lamps and reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe...
...composers of Broadway's musical shows are one-finger pianists who can read music barely, if at all. The legend is exaggerated. If they had a mind to, composers like Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern could turn out a musical score complete from piccolo to glockenspiel. In the more leisurely days of Victor Herbert, they would have. But today, the writing of musical comedies, like the manufacture of automobiles, is a production-line job. The composer thinks up the tunes, outlines the continuity, sometimes even writes out a more or less complete piano score...
...Piccolo. The Sodality was founded in 1808 by eight undergraduates "for mutual improvement in music." It owes its hoary record not to the enthusiasm of its audiences but to an institutional tenacity for which Harvardmen are famed. In the 19th Century the Pierians were noted for their prowess with the pot rather than the piccolo. Minutes of many meetings read: "The Sodality met, practised, liquored and adjourned...
...loss of the last remnant of African empire squashed Mussolini's already crawling prestige. For "El Piccolo," King Vittorio Emanuele, who docilely hitched his destiny to Mussolini's bombast, it meant that he could no longer call himself "King-Emperor...