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Word: pizzuco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing dramatically before a battered trunk, from which he pulled an Italian uniform "uncomfortably too large" for him, Signer Antonio Pizzuco said last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorized Americans | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...vexed as a hornet, one Signer Antonio Pizzuco returned from Italy to the Bronx, buzzed all week indignantly to reporters who bought and ate the sherbets he freezes for a living at No. 769 Courtlandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorized Americans | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...SherbetMaker's grievance: Antonio Pizzuco returned to Italy on a vacation last November, showed the authorities at Naples papers proving that he is a U. S. citizen. But at Argenta (near his native village) he was seized and impressed into the Italian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorized Americans | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Josephine Pizzuco's grievance: She stated that she appealed to the U. S. consul at Palermo (Howard K. Travers of Manhattan), who, she says, said: "I can't do anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorized Americans | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

Eventually Mrs. Pizzuco, "after spending several hundred dollars," got an Italian civil court moving toward the release of her husband, but the pace was almost imperceptible until Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, stirred up by Bronx friends, protested potently. Without warning or explanation, Private Pizzuco was told by his Italian sergeant at 11 o'clock one night to get out of barracks and scuttle to his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorized Americans | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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