Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York. Fifteen people died, mostly kitchen help and chambermaids trapped in top-floor workers' quarters later found to have sealed emergency exits. The second event is pure fiction by the author of such raffish and elegiac novels as Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed. In 1908 Giles Fitzroy, a prominent Albany physician, tracks his wife to a Manhattan hotel, where he finds her in the compromising company of an actress and a playwright named Edward Daugherty. Enraged and humiliated, Fitzroy shoots his wife to death, wounds Daugherty and kills himself...
...overseas." Former Labor Party leader Arthur Calwell stormed in reply that no red-blooded Australian wanted to see a "chocolate-colored" country, while Liberal Cabinet ministers insisted Australia would remain forever homogeneous. Today Vietnamese immigrants gather around high-rise public-housing buildings in Melbourne's inner-city neighborhood of Fitzroy, playing cards or talking in the soft twilight. What they will make of Australia, and Australia of them, is still to be determined...