Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With II Dute disparaging the significance of the Sicilian maneuvers, General Melchiade Gabba, directing the games, indiscreetly revealed that "Sicily was selected for the maneuvers deliberately to put the island's strategic importance in evidence. The new situation in the Mediterranean and Africa has shifted Italy's centre southward, thereby making Sicily the centre of gravity...
Nunzio Cancillo, a Sicilian who has operated a fruit and vegetable market in Greencastle, Ind. for 45 of his 65 years, was examined last week on his application for U. S. citizenship. He looked worried when he was asked "Who makes the laws in the U. S.?" Suddenly smiling, he replied, "Mr. Roosevelt." He passed...
...came to Taormina from Syracuse in the same compartment with a Sicilian family consisting of the father with a long mustache, the mother holding a baby, and a daughter looking like a brunette version of Greta Garbo and eating salami. My time was spent between looking for Mt. Etna and smelling the salami. Before the journey was over, however, I was eating salami, holding the baby, and listening to an Italian, French, handlanguage version of the last eruption of Mt. Etna...
...hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned-out writer who had taken to drink, to help him forget his responsibility for two women's deaths. Weisendonck, London Jew, was wanted for swindling. The Sicilian police were after Malatesta. O'Phelan had been a member of the Irish Republican Army, among other less respectable things...
Twenty-one years ago a boatload of bewildered Italian immigrants sifted through the mill of Ellis Island. One of the number was swarthy, stocky Fortunate Manure, a Sicilian. In the United States Fortunato Manure did not do so badly. He raised a family of seven children, worked as a laborer at various jobs, was able to act enough like a U. S. citizen to get himself a U. S. passport, but the Depression of 1929 left him without a job. One son found work in Philadelphia, the rest of the Manure family in 1931 joined thousands of other disillusioned immigrants...