Word: spiritos
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...greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...Italy mobilized for the relief of the stricken district. From his desk in the red brick palazzo Venezia, Il Duce ordered to the stricken district five regiments, a squadron of observation planes, and his brand new Earthquake Relief Train. From the Vatican Pope Pius sent a special nuncio, Mgr. Spirito Chiapetta. Little King Vittorio Emanuele went himself, motored from village to village. Exhausted soldiers and rescue squads, grief-stricken peasants glimpsed a pair of bright eyes and the top of His Majesty's campaign cap as the car passed, were comforted...
...Allegro con spirito...
...incident closed when Father Tacchi-Venturi's neck was neatly bound up at the Santo Spirito Hospital. Later, seated in an armchair, he received a visit of condolence from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, suave Papal Secretary of State...
...Cambridge, Mass., a mongrel dog walked into the hallway of a lodging-house and gave a snarl. So ferocious was this snarl that Mrs. Dominic Spirito & two offspring, Mrs. Hugo Hoffman & two offspring, scurried quickly to their rooms, from the half opened doors of which they peeped down at the mongrel with frightened faces. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Guieto, observing the terrified women and children, jumped out the window and got a policeman. The policeman came up behind the prowling mongrel and shot him dead...