Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Webster City, Iowa (current population about 8,000). Historical novelist MacKinlay Kantor was born there in 1904. Kantor's narrative poem "Glory for Me" was the basis of the classic 1946 film "The Best Years of Our Lives," which won seven Academy Awards.

The "Hollywood Suntan" is a symbol of stylish good health today, but it wasn't always so. In the 19th century, a suntan was the mark of a laborer who worked outdoors. Actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was among the first to popularize the suntan, around 1920. It was helped along by French fashion designer Coco Chanel, who began using tanned mannequins in the "Roaring" decade.

Which of these English words, all derived from the plural of Italian words, does not have a "singular Italian" version in American English dictionaries; that is, the same word ending in an "o" instead of an "i"?
A) Broccoli
B) Graffiti
C) Paparazzi
D) Biscotti

Previous answer: According to German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

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