Word: dago
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...really outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions is a shrewd stockbreeder's intuition that blood lines are strengthened by a little exogamy. If The River Road sometimes seems as long...
...Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi...
...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...
...three in the morning they walked out and climbed into Mangano's shiny, maroon 1941 Mercury. They headed back to Chicago, with Dago at the wheel. Mangano kept craning back over his shoulder. As the machine moved along Blue Island Avenue on the dingy West Side he said: "I think there's a squad car after us. We better see what they want." He braked his car to a stop, said, "Give me a fin to talk to them with," accepted a five-dollar bill from Big Mike, and climbed...
...black sedan rolled toward him and slowed. The street echoed with the slamming roar of gunfire, the black sedan raced away, screeched around a corner and was gone. Big Mike leaped out, began dragging Dago Mangano's moaning, bleeding bulk toward the curb. From around another corner the black sedan careened again. Big Mike pushed his girl to safety. The guns roared, and Big Mike fell beside Mangano, mortally wounded...