Word: mariannina
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...Scaffidi was a man of simple tastes. A stubby, barrel-chested farm worker, he lived happily with his wife Concetta and their four children in a shabby house in the Sicilian countryside near Messina. One day five years ago, when Giuseppe was 28, he met a young neighbor named Mariannina at a festival. Mariannina was very unhappy. Her husband was old and blind, and her family was forced to live on the husband's pension of $160 a month. "No problem," said Giuseppe generously. "Move in with us." So Mariannina, her husband and their three children settled...
...fact, all very pleasant for Giuseppe, who was scrupulously fair in dispensing his sexual generosity. No. 1 concubine became Mariannina, No. 2 her daughter Giuseppa, No. 3 Fortunata, No. 4 Margherita I, No. 5 Margherita II, No. 6 Lucia, No. 7 Mamma Carmela, No. 8 Angelika. Explained No. 2: "We all agreed. Each night, it was someone else's turn to sleep in the big bed with Giuseppe." Hers was Sunday. Scheduling was left to No. 1, who juggled Giuseppe's nocturnal appointments around illnesses and other exigencies. "There was no jealousy at all," said No. 2, ignoring...
...count on was Fortunata's anger upon learning that she had been traded for a secondhand truck. She blew the whistle, and soon the police were asking questions. They wanted to know if the women were being used as prostitutes; they denied it. The police asked just how Mariannina's husband's pension check was used. The answer was unclear. So now the authorities have charged Giuseppe with pandering and selling his harem's offspring, and they have taken him away. His wife misses him. So do Nos. 1 through 8 (except Fortunata), two of whom...
...Gaspare Pisciotta's dead body was borne from the church in the small town of Montelepre to the little cemetery on its outskirts, it passed the drygoods shop of Mariannina Giuliano, Salvatore's sister. The windows were banked high with cheerful red carnations, as if for a village festival. "At last," signed Giuliano's vindictive old mother, Maria, when the procession wound by her house, "the big-mouthed one is silent...
...made an exhaustive beat of Giuliano's mountain hideout. He slipped through the net (rumor said by joining a bicycle race that was passing through the area) and took a lonesome vacation in the mountain villages on the lower slopes, near Palermo. Police had already arrested his sisters Mariannina and Giuseppina; his mother is locked up on charges of extortion. The dragnet picked up several of his aides...
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