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...Heywood Broun was not the least vitriolic commentator on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, neither was he the most impassioned. The conviction of the poor fish-peddler and the good shoemaker in 1921 shocked the liberals of the '20's to such an extent that it became their cause; hundreds of thousands of them picketed, wrote letters, gave money, and pleaded desperately for acquittal...
Neither proved to have an ironclad alibi for the day. Sacco, a worker in a shoe factory, had taken the day off to go to Boston and get a passport for his trip to Italy. Vanzetti was a fish-peddler and could only rely on the word of his customers for an alibi...
...Rotgut," a word that sounds as if it were coined no later than Prohibition, meant much the same thing to Johnson; it was "bad beer" in his day. A Hollywood flesh peddler, i.e., actor's agent, has a philological ancestor in Johnson's London, where a pimp was a fleshmonger. "Bum" Dr. Johnson defined with magisterial simplicity as "the part on which...
...Maple Leaf Rag Song (1903) Ragtime began hypnotizing the nation about the time the Gay Nineties became gay, and it disappeared years before the Stanley Steamer and the suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become...
Russia's Armenian-born diplomatic rug peddler was the image of public affability...