Word: ullo
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...years, mystified lawmen knew them only as the ".22-cal. hitters" (TIME, April 18). But now the FBI believes it has a big break in the case -and indeed one of the killers. Last week federal prosecutors in Los Angeles were preparing indictments against an underworld moneylender named Joseph Ullo, charging him with two of the .22-cal. slayings...
...Ullo, 49, a short, wily onetime New York City hoodlum who moved west 14 years ago, had been arrested a week earlier on a convenient charge of loan-sharking, with bail set at $1 million. Federal officials believe that he murdered Jack Molinas, 43, a gambling figure and porn-film distributor who was found shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975. The other victim: Vincent Calderazzo, a New York Mafia soldier whose bones were discovered by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Victorville, Calif., in March. Both were killed with...
...grunt of acknowledgement is permissable for those compelled to formality. So deep was my prior cultural conditioning that I never quite got over the strain of keeping silent. The next visitor to my village will no doubt be surprised to be greeted by a hoard of little boys yelling "Ullo." Acculturation works in strange ways...
...sneak out with cronies like Lord Hardwicke (who "perfected" the top hat) and Lord Dupplin (who invented the dinner jacket) to chase fire engines or more often, ladies. He was known on sight to the dancers of half the cabarets of Paris, who used to greet him by shouting "Ullo, Wales!" His taste in women was so well known to society, in fact, that when he descended on a country house (usually without his wife but with a retinue of 12 to 16 attendants), a wise hostess juggled bedrooms so that the Prince would be within convenient reach...
...travaliar. Nemo le dava unquam ullo...