Word: ottavia
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...Lucia does not read or write any language at all, so she went around the corner to a small household supply store owned by brawny Luigi Ottavia, who was born in the States. He read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come...
...That was last week. This morning Luigi Ottavia sent word to the Rome bureau that the first food package had arrived. He said that Lucia opened it slowly before all the neighbors who could crowd into her dingy room, and that everyone's eyes shone at the contents: ham, coffee, soap, milk, chocolate, macaroni and rice. Said Luigi Ottavia: 'At last she's beginning to believe...
...Metropolitan Opera is an old fogy with antiquated ways. It lives in a shabby, inconvenient old house. Its staging has shown no progress. The same scenery is used again and again. . . . Ottavia Scotto. South American impresario, said all this in effect when he arrived in Manhattan last week on the S. S. France. New York needs a larger opera house, he said, a modern one, with cheaper seats...