Word: chierchia
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...some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...