Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...figurines glinted in the light of the December moon. For the humble poor as well as the rich, it was Posada time, the season of Mexico's traditional pre-Christmas parties, when visitors go from house to house bearing lighted candles and singing the traditional words that ask shelter for the holy figures. The hosts sing an answer, saying, like the innkeeper of ancient Judea, that all the beds are taken. The ritual over, everyone troops inside for food & drink...
...Race, and Mount Jo have the best skiing in the Adirondacks, high living expenses, slow rope tow service, and difficult transportation facilities keep skiing at a minimum in this area.Skiing Photographs in this issue by Earl Scott '40Hillman's Highway, Mt. Washington, Now Hampshire, as soon from the ravine shelter, presents a formidable spectacle even to the expert...
...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
John F. Counting, manager of the Cambridge business office, disclosed that the shelter for the annex has already been completed, but that installation of the necessary equipment is not expected to be finished until August or September...