Word: spaghetti
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...brick house at No. 7244 Prairie Ave., the "little home" which he used to give substance to his story of being "out of the booze racket." Three years ago newsmen called upon him there. He opened the door to them, wearing a pink apron, carrying a pan of spaghetti...
...leader of the gang was Sam Vettori. Fat and cunning, Sam owned the spaghetti joint over which the gang met. Rico's cop-murder alarmed Sam. Conservative, Sam protested: "Love of God, didn't I tell you no gunwork?" Rico retaliated by reducing Sam's share of the spoils. Sam acknowledged defeat graciously. Reason: the gang's best guns were behind ruthless Rico. So Rico rose to leadership of the gang...
...vigorous campaign against spaghetti "and other foods in which white flour is squandered" was announced, last week, to commence with the observance of Feb. 19, 1928, as National Rice...
...occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...
...content with waging a ruthless "battle of wheat" (TIME, Oct. 24), Premier Benito Mussolini ordered a "national rice day" for Nov. 1. Apparently, on that day all good Italians must live like Chinese-on rice. For the edification of the spaghetti-eating populace, Il Duce explained that rice day was in reality a supporting attack in the "battle of wheat," which is being fought to make Italy a cereally self-sufficient country, by reducing the imports of that grain. Rice, he went on, can be raised in Italy on large tracts of land now available...