Word: tre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barrister by profession, and on the following day he lost no time in filing a suit against the proprietor of the cararet for evicting him and against the barman for refusing to serve him with drinks. No sooner had the Prince's suit been filed than Maître Moro Giafferi, most famous of all French lawyers, offered his services to the Prince. Maître Giafferi defended Caillaux, Landru (the French Bluebeard) and Mme. Bessarabe...
...suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...
Twenty lusty Italian workmen shouting: "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company chose, to open its second and last Boston week, Montemezzi's "L'Amore dei Tre Re," the libretto by Sem Benelli, with Miss Garden in the role of Flora. It is one of the less familiar operas that the Chicagoans have seen fit to sponsor, and they have succeeded in earning it a popular reception...
...Amore dei Tre Re" is a curious mixture of old and new tendencies, and represents perhaps the middle ground between an opera like "Rigoletto" and one which may be written twenty years from now. The music is entirely modern, melodically and harmonically, and modern the orchestration; and then, in contrast, one finds a story which, with its antique romanticism, would have recommended itself to Verdi. The time is the middle ages, and the story, quickly told, involves a wife who has been unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt...