Word: pierino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Alessandro took over his estates last year, he surveyed his assets and found that 222 sheep were missing from among the more than 2,000 at one of his smaller farms, a ranch in central Italy. The manager, Pierino Amori, explained that the animals had disappeared during the German occupation and that he had not wanted to worry his master with such a trifle; but the prince filed charges of theft against Pierino. This month he was to appear in court to answer the charges...
Last Sunday the young prince, accompanied by his two sisters, left the family pew at Rome's quiet little Church of St. Girolamo. Pierino appeared, a pistol in his outstretched hand. "You die!" he shouted, and fired five times. The prince drew his own pistol, but before he could aim he slumped backward...
...Pierino was arrested and the prince taken to a hospital, where he is recovering. But the great lord faced other difficulties. The shooting brought forth anti-Torlonia editorials in the Marxist press. This week a group of Christian Democratic deputies proposed that the Fucino acres be expropriated by the government and turned over to the peasants who work them...
...first the skeptics said, as Samuel Johnson said of a dog walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In Zurich, an oboist tested Pierino by deliberately playing a false note during rehearsal. The bambino stopped the orchestra, sternly told the oboist to get back on the track...
Last week, Pierino walked briskly on to the stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroyish black velvet jacket, white lace collar, and short pants. The podium had been built up so nine-year-old Pierino could see all of the 70 musicians of the Association des Concerts Lamoureux. He conducted Schubert's Unfinished without a score, and handled it decisively. He was less certain in Beethoven's Fifth-the brasses got away from him in the finale. But he did well enough to touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven...