Word: spada
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...Capt. Hermann Goring, and that same Capt. Goring was about to set out for Italy to join Col. von Papen, whose job there was twofold: 1) to prepare the way for a later visit to Italy from Handsome Adolf himself; 2) as a good Catholic and Cameriere Segreto di Spada e Cappa (Private Chamberlain, Cape & Sword) to the Papal Court, to persuade the Vatican that Hitlerism promised no harm to Christianity or to the Catholic Church. What was happening behind him was no help. Having "coordinated" almost everything in sight, the enthusiastic Nazis turned next to the Evangelical Church...
...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...
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...