Word: spada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe to sing Carmen in Cleveland this week. Said she, patting her middle: "Here I work like the devil getting this figure and then they always find some big fat blonde to point out as Mary Garden! ... I am at last heartbroken over a man. He is, alas, Andrea Spada. I have been in Corsica where he was a swashbuckling brigand and I loved him so much I named my dog after...
...improve if he would move out of the Cafe Napoleon and allow the natives to resume their accustomed seats, he wrote long appeals to the people of Corsica for support, inserted them in all Corsican newspapers. In particular he wanted to know the whereabouts of Corsica's "mastermind," Andre Spada, the bandit chief. His home had been raided; he had fled farther into the mountains...
Also hunting for Spada were the proud reporters with their arm bands and their rifles. One found the oldest inhabitant of a mountain village in a more talkative mood...
...they think they are going to outwait Spada they will need plenty of patience. This is the chestnut season, and Spada and his men can live on chestnuts for months...
Gendarmes tried to hasten matters by arresting nut-munching Spada's sweet heart, swart Antoinette Leca...