Word: signore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...design (they are probably the planes approved only last February, first tested in March) and had a chuckle about the name. Picchiatelli, it appeared, was Italian for a word in the picture Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which was extremely popular in Italy-pixilated. It was used to describe Signor Gary Cooper as slightly daffy...
...Signor Filippo Tomaso Marinetti founded Futurism in Art with a famed manifesto on Feb. 20, 1909. In the name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the pestilential past. Still later Signor Marinetti fought for Fascism, and became a close friend of II Duce. Down through the years he poured out Futurist manifestoes echoing Fascist policies...
...wonderful nation." Another time, when the British were being reviled for sanctions, he issued "A Futurist Manifesto to Liberate Ourselves From English Habits . . . tea-drinking, snobbery, golfing, pipe-smoking, bridge-playing and an inexplicable apathy toward women." Last week, as Benito Mussolini busily drafted his declaration of war, Signor Marinetti rallied round him his most formidable talents-which he currently calls aeropoetry, aeropainting and aero-music. Aeropainting has occasionally taken the form of a view of half an airplane; the other half, says the speed-loving Futurist, is going so fast it cannot be seen. Aero-music is usually recorded...
...unassailably strong when he got a rough-&-tumble pal of Ethiopian days, much-decorated Ettore Muti, appointed to Starace's job. Muti looks like a handsome U. S. gangster, and, not being too quick of brain or tongue, is the subject of merciless punning (muto = dumb). Last week Signor Muti had a gold medal pinned on his chest by Il Duce for having carried out 160 admirable bombing raids during the Spanish campaign...