Word: uwanawich
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...ever made an authoritative estimate of the mental age of Big Joe Uwanawich, a high-caste Serbian gypsy who lives at 174 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. There is, however, no question but that Big Joe has been highly successful in evading all attempts to fit him into a social framework. A lifelong man of leisure -many gypsies let their wives earn the family living-Big Joe claims to have been arrested some 100 times during his 70 years, but has never been known to have spent any time in jail, at least not in New York...
...advantages of this arrangement immediately became clear to Big Joe Uwanawich, who was charged with 51 traffic violations, including demolition of a fire hydrant with his Cadillac. "Judge," said he, "I will try to bring in all the Uwanawiches I can find. Even the ones out of town. By the way, Judge, do you want Miller Uwanawich...
...they had been able to do was to persuade eleven gypsies to pay up $800 on 97 of the 2,000-odd outstanding tickets. This, explained their attorney, was because they didn't have "too much influence." The man who really had influence, he added, was Big Joe Uwanawich, "who is currently on tour rounding up gypsies...
There was, moreover, one other trace of Big Joe: a note from Bessemer, Ala. written on the back of a restaurant check. It said: "I, Nido Uwanawich, met up with Joe Uwanawich. I will pay my summonses as soon as I have money...
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