Word: neapolitans
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...Right after the vote was announced, 533-2, Fitzgerald and a Neapolitan bishop who also voted non placet went forward to Pope Pius IX and declared "Now I believe." Absent dissenters sent in their submissions...
...politically only the Irish and Italians rule Boston. The council has been divided between Kerrigans, Hyneses, Foleys, Iannellas and Langones for years. The majority of the Irish candidates live in Dorchester and South Boston, while the Italians reside in the North End and East Boston, both heavy Neapolitan sections of the city...
About 200 police stood guard from a discreet distance. Pietro Guli, chief of the airport police, volunteered to go aboard. Eventually he re-emerged with Minichiello, who got into the back seat of Guli's Alfa Romeo, pointed his carbine and asked him in Neapolitan-accented Italian to drive away. Only three miles out of Rome, Minichiello ordered Guli from the car and then drove on a short distance before jumping out and heading across the fields. As some 800 police and four helicopters fanned out in search, Minichiello wandered through the vineyard-dotted countryside for more than four...
There are, in addition, internal disputes, like the messy slaying of New York Boss Albert Anastasia in 1957. Even though he has never been east of Flatbush, a Cosa Nostra man still looks upon himself as a Sicilian or a Neapolitan, distrusting the other. Nor is the Commission itself what it once was. Two places, vacated by death, have not been filled. Two of the commissioners, Philadelphia's Angelo Bruno and New York's Joe Colombo, command little respect; Detroit's Joe Zerilli rarely attends meetings. A former commissioner, New York's Joe Bonanno, was kicked...
...artist led to another. Poet-Painter André Verdet ordered a sport coat of grey velvet curtain material. Picasso took one look at Verdet's coat and was off to see the tailor. The two men hit it off instantly, and after Sapone had cooked Picasso some Neapolitan spaghetti, the artist gave him three lithographs and an order to "sew something...