Word: signoras
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...would try to express what I really believe about it." There was a nervous laugh in the room and a whispered "Please don't." After three minutes on the Red Cross, Ike spent a minute talking about the visit of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi. Then he wanted "to mention two bills that are before Congress," the farm program and the Upper Colorado River development bill. By that time, under the glare of the television lights, the temperature in the room was rising and the pressure on the reporters had risen to the breaking point...
...sign. Paden started tacking it up again. Back came the police, down came the sign. Paden's brother Gerald had locked himself in a car to take pictures of the incident, but the police broke into the car and took him off to jail. They also arrested Signora Disma Pollipoli, wife of an Italian Church of Christ preacher. At week's end, Missionary Paden nailed his sign outside an upstairs window and locked the front door. Said he: "The police came, and they put up their ladders, but they couldn't reach the sign. They beat...
...aged count, her husband, as a "purely formal duty." Her friend Carlo Sacchi the silk merchant was an amateur poet as well and only slightly less passionate. In Italy's caviar and champagne set during the early '40s, the two made a neatly rhymed couplet, and even Signora Sacchi nodded at their idyl on the theory that it was only a "passing passion...
...first act, the audience spotted Princess Aly (Rita Hayworth) Khan sitting in the first row, excitedly howled "Viva Bellissima Rita!" The Princess, wearing a plain white evening gown embellished with white flowers, rose, smiled and bowed to her admirers. No one seemed to notice Signora Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini, who kept quietly to herself in the tenth...
...dictatorship established itself, he turned his back on Rome. In Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...