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Word: simonelli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Brooklyn boys in zoot suits, Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli, never did like their old math teacher anyhow. So one day two months ago they went back to their high school and smoked in a washroom, just to be annoying. When the teacher reprimanded them and sent them packing, they got sore. Presently they returned to the school with a revolver and shot the math teacher in the back. He died in his blood on the floor of the school corridor. On such evidence the two boys, no longer in zoot suits, were last week sent to Sing Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Terrorized Teachers | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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