Word: qui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Qui Comando lo!" Across in Anticoli, there were complications. Local Socialist Leader Carlo Toppi, a jolly, moonfaced sculptor, wasn't quite strong enough to get himself made mayor. During the campaign he had become so excited painting emblems on the town's walls, that he wasn't sure any more that there was a difference between Socialists and Communists. The local Communists suggested that Anticoli needed a mayor with high contacts in Rome itself. Toppi agreed, and Anticoli proudly selected as its mayor a Communist from Rome. His job was that of porter at the Air Ministry...
...both towns had Communist mayors, but they got different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
...million. Its present head-and fifth in direct line of descent from the founder-is staid, bespectacled George Emlen Roosevelt, 59, a noted amateur chess player and yachtsman. He will be succeeded ultimately by one of his two sons or five nephews, in the tradition of the family motto: Qui Plantavit Curabit (he who planted will tend...
...Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that is, if he ever got a divorce from Wife No. 2. He had been just too extravagant, Virginia...
...Montreal they found the prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...