Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the artists threw Verzocchi's bricks into an obscure corner, but some, e.g., Massimo Campigli in his subtly lyrical The Architrave, managed to get a whole stack of them into their compositions. Antonio Donghi, whose meticulously realistic painting of a peasant woman rowing a boatload of faggots was one of the most popular in the show, had floated his brick miraculously on water...
...people she had wronged. But on the appointed night "last summer," nobody came. After two hours of humiliating waiting, Harriet Reeves had a heart attack and died. A few days later, concluded Columnist Rose, her lawyer "came across an ironic footnote to her lifetime of forgetfulness. It was the stack of invitations to the party which Harriet had stamped and addressed -but forgotten to mail...
Last week Blacksmith Cianfone decided he had had enough. He had spent 30,000 lire of his own hard-earned money in fruitless visits to provincial party headquarters. In his forge he quietly burned a stack of confidential party documents. Then he summoned friend Coriddi, presented him with the party effects, including a cash book that showed a balance of 27 lire (about 4?). Coriddi agreed to offer membership in the local Christian Democratic section to the remaining 53 Communist Party members...
According to the Organizer of the Retail Pharmacists' Guild, A.F.L., Richard Stack, unless the company stops its "deliberately obstinate policy" toward his union, he will put paid pickets consisting of truckers and longshoremen on the store within the next week...
...Sunday mornings Monti invariably aroused Borgo's citizens with his cries: "Buy Unita! Read Unita! Here is Unita!" Peasants for miles around knew the peal of Monti's bicycle bell as he flashed by, a huge stack of papers thrown across the handlebars, a small red flag flying on his front mudguard. Those who looked up late saws the word "Unita" in huge letters on the back of Monti's sweater as he pedaled briskly about his business...