Word: umbertos
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...strike's last day was a meatless Friday, but at a little trattoria off the Corso Umberto the following noontime exchange took place between customer and proprietor...
...Umberto Terracini, president of Italy's Assembly, is affectionately known to his fellow Italian Communists as "The Brain." Last week The Brain ached...
...Umberto Terracini has the reputation of a brave man. He spent 18 years in Mussolini's prisons. From his presiding rostrum in the Assembly he had once rebuked his own party boss: "Honorable Togliatti, you don't have the floor. I beg you to be silent." Terracini had been known to believe, in the past, that the Kremlin might err. He had raised such a fuss over the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939 that he had been banished from the party's inner councils for a while. But last week even Umberto Terracini judged that...
...There's an arcade in Naples that they call the Gallería Umberto Primo. It's a cross between a railroad station and a church. You think you're in a museum till you see the bars and the shops. Once this Gallería had a dome of glass, but the bombings of Naples shattered this skylight, and tinkling glass fell like cruel snow...
...Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...