Word: fretwork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wops ............Italians Bohunks .............Hungarians and Slavs Polacks ..........Poles Hunkies ............Hungarians Dagoes .........Italians *Later, in jail, Vanzetti fumbled with the fretwork of English idiom, his squinting pen articulating the letter below: ". . . Innocent; I am so. I did not spittel a drop of blood or steal a cent in my life. A little knowledge of the past: a sorrowful experience of life itself had give to me some idears very different from those of many other umane beings. But I wish to convince my fellowman that only with virtue and honesty is possible for us to find a little happiness...
Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, where such luxuries as fountains, tinkling behind screens of marble fretwork, lull the inhabitants into a disregard of occasional vermin potentially laden with typhus bacilli...