Word: sicilianism
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...broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance by his wife's refusal to consummate the marriage, Meighan takes his revenge on the world by burning down the Syndicate-owned gin which has put him out of business. At that point, the competition in the form of Silva Vacarro, the Sicilian manager of the Syndicate, moves in. Vacarro get his revenge by seducing Baby Doll...
...Sicilian scheme of things, nothing is so important for a girl as her honor-unless perhaps it is the size of her dowry. In the case of Vincenzina d'Urso, a willowy girl of 21 with chestnut hair, the dowry fell short of the expectations of the bridegroom's family. Words were exchanged, doors slammed; Vincenzina's marriage to Enzo d'Agostino, a 21-year-old truck driver, was abruptly called...
Bradley graduated from West Point in 1915, in the same class as President Eisenhower. During the Second World War, he had several different combat commands in the European Theater of Operations. He led the Second Army Corps in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, and commanded the First Army in the Normandy operations...
...German-speaking South Tyroleans. who once had a10-to-1 majority in the area, accuse the Italians of flooding the region with Sicilian and Neapolitan "immigrants" in an attempt to create an Italian majority...
Chief Obodo's dominion in the district of Abakaliki was as near to absolute as that of a padrone in a Sicilian village. The distant government in the capital city of Lagos hardly interfered. Chief Obodo had his own courts, collected goats and cows from the villagers for tribute, had his own murder squad to enforce his orders. He boasted: "After God comes Chief Obodo." When a contractor who had already begun negotiations discovered that Obodo was interested in the same job, he hurriedly withdrew, sent goats and libations to the chief as peace offerings. Obodo's power...