Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he had accepted an invitation to visit Italy). He does not remember ever hearing his parents converse in Italian; quick-witted Marietta and hard-working Gerard De Sapio spoke English, tried to teach their son that he was an American, pure and simple. Between them, they established a solid little trucking business, came to own a stable of 14 horses. They lived in a comfortable if modest first-floor apartment, with their stables out back. De Sapio recalls the stablemen "often taking a short cut with the horses through the hall." Young Carmine helped out in the stables, brushed...
...courses at Fordham and attended night classes for a year at the Brooklyn Law School. But iritis, a chronic eye ailment that was the residue of an earlier bout with rheumatic fever, ended his schooling. (His mother still mourns his failure to become a lawyer, saying, "A solid thing. He would've been a judge...
...Overexcitement of a solid hour or more of disjointed, sometimes frenetic action...
...election, Happy's Republican opponent, Judge Edwin R. Denney, 51, can hardly hope to match Chandler for winsomeness. A solid (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs.), solemn, soft-spoken mountaineer, he plans a campaign that will "stress honesty, frugality, economy and integrity in government." But with the Democrats loyally closing ranks, and Chandler's pretested corn-and-comedy act on the road again, G.O.P. hopes look dim indeed...
Thus, they take their secret shame with them wherever they go, and to compensate they become rude, overbearing and superlative-addicted ... In other cities the fandom is notoriously ignorant, unfair or surly - sometimes all three. Only in the Polo Grounds do you get a solid mass of intelligent, polite, yet loyal, spectators." Clearly, Fiction Writer (Big Out) Hano suffers from the astigmatism of his trade ; his picture is purposely a little out of focus. But sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders...