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...energies to suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Purity | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

Twenty lusty Italian workmen shouting: "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 30, 1923 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...cast for the German Play, "Gott sei Dank der Tisch ist gedeckt," has been arranged as follows: General von Saint-Paulin, R. G. Wellington '02 Frau von Saint-Paulin, L. R. Clapp '03 Hermance, their daughter, and bride of Lombard, G. P. Wolcott '03 Lombard, bride-groom of Hermance, W. S. Bedal '03 Roussillon Augustine-Servants, K. Baumgarten '03 W. A. Sawyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Play Cast. | 4/3/1901 | See Source »

...Deutscher Verein has decided to continue the short plays for members of the club which were so successful last year. In the second week of April the members will present a one act comedy, entitled "Gott sei Dank, der Tisch ist gedickt." The performance will be for members only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deutscher Verein Theatricals | 3/27/1901 | See Source »

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