Word: serafina
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...earns his living teaching at the Boston Conservatory of Music, playing the organ in an Armenian church for services, and for weddings and funerals. Occasionally, to pick up a little change, he has harmonized popular songs. A shy, serious man, he lives with his 18-year-old wife Serafina in Boston's grubby Field Street, rough equivalent of Greenwich Village...
Last week the Navy's shark-scat was a red-hot topic in Gloucester. Other fishermen, following the Angle and Florence, tried it with success. But Skipper Philip Nicastro of the Serafina N. claimed that one impetuous shark ate a whole bag of the stuff without apparent damage. One possible explanation: shark-scat (like some strong cheeses) offends the nose and eyes, but not the stomach...
...Chicago one morning last week, Serafina di Leo lay abed in a clutter of flowers, telegrams and Sunday papers. A great deal had happened to her in three years. She had studied diligently in Italy, learned to speak pure Italian instead of the dialect on which she had been raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with...
...last week, Serafina di Leo read and reread her congratulatory telegrams. The newspapers told her what she already knew, that her debut as Leonora (// Trovatore) the night before had been successful if not sensational, that she had deported herself with accustomed confidence, displayed a powerful voice, bril liant if sometimes hard. . . . Lazily she stretched out, turned to the comic strips...