Word: dallas
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Died. Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, 82, longtime editor (1920-60) of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano; of pneumonia; in Vatican City. As the semiofficial voice of four Popes, Dalla Torre austerely spelled out the church's stand on the issues of the day, only rarely, but then effectively, airing his own views in the paper's columns. His scathing editorials denouncing Fascism so enraged Mussolini that he ordered the paper banned from Rome, but Dalla Torre continued to smuggle out copies from his Vatican sanctuary, remaining one of the few Italian voices resisting the Axis...
...Publisher Peter Wolfe ordered soup in an Italian restaurant, and the waiter served it with his thumb in it. Wordlessly sending it back, Wolfe wished he had had enough Italian to call the waiter "a dribbling, senile fool!" or at least snarl at him: "Tolga il suo sudicio dito dalla minestra!" (Get your dirty thumb out of the soup...
Died. Elia Cardinal dalla Costa. 89, Archbishop of Florence and oldest member of the Sacred College, a tall, austere cleric who helped thousands of Italians to escape Fascist execution during World War II, became known throughout Italy as "the Cardinal of Charity"; of pulmonary complications; in Florence...