Word: silvio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Count Franco Ratti, nephew of Pope Pius XI, engineer, director of the Vatican City Technical Services; and Angela Maria Crespi, daughter of Tycoon-Senator Silvio Crespi of Milan; by the Pope, who had not performed a marriage ceremony for eight years; in the great Consistorial Hall of Vatican City...
...Governor Lehman saw Jockeys Don Meade and Silvio Coucci each win three races in one afternoon. Jockey Coucci's mounts were Fidelis, Deduce and General Farley, named for the Postmaster General who arrived later in the week...
...prizes awarded are books, placed the disposal of the Department of Romance Languages by the president of the Societa, Mr. Silvio Vitale, Royal Italian Consul for this district...
...Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War, with Jockey Silvio Coucci up: the Arlington Classic, year's richest ($88,100) U. S. three-year-old race; by three lengths, with Stepenfetchit second, field horses third and fourth, Top Flight, the favorite, fifth, Faireno eighth; in Chicago...
...people who spread like a dark fungus around the crooked oval that is the Aintree course, the moments between the last jump and the finish must have been trying. Mr. Midwood is a Liverpool cotton broker who never bets on horse races, who once paid $53,000 for Silvio to win the Grand National, but failed, and admits that he does not know the pedigree of Shaun Goilin, whom he calls "a thoroughly Irish horse." As he watched Sir Lindsay and Melleray's Belle moving away, Mr. Midwood may have questioned the merits of his horse's ancestry...