Word: grannich
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...American Jewish World sent a reporter to see the mother of Editor Michael Gold (real name: Irwin Grannich) of The New Masses, author of Jews Without Money (TIME, Feb. 24). The reporter showed the old lady a copy of her son's book, with which she apparently was unfamiliar. He read her a passage about herself: "She slaved, she worked herself to the bone keeping us fresh and neat. The bedbugs were a torment to her. She doused the beds with kerosene, changed the sheets, sprayed the mattresses in an endless frantic war with the bedbugs...
...that Mrs. Grannich cried out: "Wot, my son writes about bedbogs in my house? Minnie, hev we got bedbogs? In Delency Strit did we hev bedbogs? In Allen Strit did we hev bedbogs? ... I got to hev a son writes about bedbogs...
...Grannich laughed hysterically, was too overcome to speak in English, shouted: "Ich hob aruntergenummen die shich jar alle menschen?" (I removed my shoes in front of all the people...
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