Word: amerigo
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...this pageantry, the bitter fact remains that Americans know all too little about the pickle. What schoolchild, for example, realizes that Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to a hemisphere, once dealt in the pickle traffic in Spain? It is probably safe to say that few college graduates could supply the answer to such a question. Furthermore, how many citizens know that in a broader sense, the term "pickle" can be applied to any saline or acid preservative solution...
Pravda would make as much sense as Eaton if it concluded that Americans were wicked because their name was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian and, therefore, a Fascist beast. Not even Pravda would try that. Eaton's article drew an angry and effective answer from Alexander Kerensky, who has been fighting the Soviet Government since the Bolsheviks kicked him out of the presidency of Russia 30 years ago. Wrote Kerensky in last week's New Leader...
...analysis of the news, CBS London then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
They called him l'uomo che la morte non vuole-the man whom death does not want. Amerigo Dumini, the St. Louis-born Italian gangster-politician, had sent many men to their death, but somehow always managed to dodge it himself. He lost a hand in World War I, and lived. He stopped a bullet with his head in World War II and lived, recovering miraculously after he had been abandoned as dead in a cave near Bengasi. Yet his most famous dealings with death occurred in the infamous days between the two wars, when he organized the murder...
Last week, Dumini was sentenced to life imprisonment,* which was immediately commuted to 30 years. Amerigo Dumini was still not wanted by death...