Word: mario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to the Pacific Coast, the San Francisco Chronicle last week reported: "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt stayed away from politics. . . . Even when she lunched, somewhat surprisingly, with A. P. and Mario Giannini (who are being investigated by her husband's SEC) she kept the conversation on the weather and the [San Francisco] Fair. Her only lapse came when she picked up a newspaper and read that the President had issued a plea to the A. F. of L. for labor unity. 'Dear Franklin,' smiled Mrs. Roosevelt in the manner of an adult discussing...
...Aliquippa, Pa. when Mario Izzo died, Aliquippans took up a collection to move his body from potter's field, and buy him a tombstone. Reason: Last summer when oldster Izzo, an Italian immigrant, was put on relief, he looked at his first weekly check for $3.60, seized a broom and went out to sweep the streets six hours a day, six days a week, explaining: "I think this is a wonderful country. I decide I will be an honest man with this country. ... So I start to sweep. . . . My bread it tastes sweet and I feel like...
...misappropriating church funds, last December 30-year-old Mario Politi was removed as administrator of the Vatican Library, sentenced to four years and four months in the trim little Vatican jail, where he is the only prisoner. Mario Politi expected a pardon from Pope Pius XI last week, on the 10th anniversary of the Lateran Treaty. Day before, Pope Pius died...
...violated the "Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The jury, which included salesmen, executives, engineers, a brewer and a taxicab driver, listened to about 100 witnesses from Washington hospitals and medical organizations all over the country. It learned that the District Society had expelled G. H. A. Physician Mario Victor Scandiffio and had forced another doctor to resign from the G. H. A. staff. It read a resolution of the District Society to throttle "successful operation of G. H. A., Inc." and examined the letters A. M. A.'s Morris Fishbein had sent the society...
...ominous, troubled atmosphere. The hypnotic "illusionist," with his Mephistophelean sense of evil; the hysterical emotions of the dazed people he operates upon; the submerged, intolerable griefs that he forces them to stammer out-these have the kind of horror found in Thomas Mann's famed story Mario and the Magician. Melodramatic, a little shrill, a little unearthly, Here Come the Clowns is like a grotesque tune played on a broken fiddle...