Manager Kevin Kennedy has no padrone, as such, but he admits he owes a great deal to his high school baseball coach, a crusty sort named Ray O'Connor.
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We remembered all the Hollywood movies set in intimate Italian restaurants : checkered tablecloths, candles in straw-wrapped Chianti bottles, jolly padrone and, most important, that romantic violinist.
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As migant laborers from Italy arrived for work they created their own labor system called the'padrone'system based on the'boss'systems which already existed during this period.
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"' Gavino Ledda "'( born 30 December 1938 ) is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Padre padrone " ( 1975 ).
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The "'padrone system "'was a contract labor system utilized by many immigrant groups to find employment in the United States, most notably Japanese, and Mexicans.
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Instead, the padrones produced a dead-of-night compromise that left existing structures largely intact while threatening, in the long run, to raise rents significantly for many apartment dwellers.
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In 1919, Menichelli starred in " Il padrone delle ferriere " ( The boss of the ironworks ) alongside Amleto Novelli, one of the most famous Italian actors of the period.
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But last Sunday when 35 people, including friends of friends, descended on his Westchester County home, he was the padrone at a tasting of 12 Tuscan reds and whites and four hours of kibitzing.
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He played the patriarch, surveying his compadres like one of the likable padrones in " The Sopranos, " the popular HBO mini-series in which Van Zandt is a co-star.
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In the words of Kelley, by 1959, Sinatra was " not simply the leader of the Rat Pack " but had " assumed the position of " il padrone " in Hollywood ".
