Word: dago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep. With a gesture she had it deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight and out of mind of Great Catherine. Here the Swedish exiles founded Gammal- Svenksby-Old Swedish Town. For over 125 years they...
...Blood, Leftie Louie, Dago Frank, etc., were executed for killing Rosenthal. Another Gyp the Blood, a onetime newspaper man, was an undercover prohibition agent...
...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
...Dopie" Ikie Schneider, Archie Wotin, "Dago" Jack Marinari are arrested for murder and robbery. Meyer defends the boys-fellow-gangsters. A planted juror causes a disagreement. Another trial brings conviction, with executive clemency as the last hope. The Republican Governor, believer in the maximum penalty, is adamant. The three men are electrocuted. But Meyer has his revenge on the Governor...
...this is partly true for the perfectly sound artistic reason that it helps you remember that a Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more...