Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveals that Bellanca was spurned by the War Department in 1917 and 1918 when he offered to build a bombing plane, powered with two Liberty motors, that would have a speed of 183 miles an hour fully loaded with bombs, machine guns, and crew. The Government laughed at this Sicilian dreamer, although he always lived up to his promises. Incidentally, the plans still exist today and Col. Chamberlin believes that the ship, if built, would "outperform any bombing plane now in the possession of the Army or Navy of the United States...
Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
...bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with sunny charm before this (Seacoast of Bohemia, Sicilian Noon, etc.), and once out of his Jewish bones (Day of Atonement...
...Nestoroff is a woman who can keep herself, almost, beyond pity or fear. Giorgio's suicide was truly satisfying to her. Now she is quite happy with Carlo Ferro, the hirsute Sicilian actor. His domination keeps her strong against remorse for Giorgio. She is sufficiently in love to be anxious for Carlo's safety in a scene where he is to kill a charging tiger, a very real beast the company has obtained because it was too dangerous for the park at Rome. She insists on precautions...
...sister's fiancé, one Aldo Nuti. Aldo now reappears, just before the taking of the tiger scene. He has come for her or for revenge. She scorns him. She turns his revenge upon himself. She traps him into offering himself as a substitute for her Sicilian in the tiger scene, then covers him with public derision for his heroics. He has not heard about the precautions...