Word: wop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athenians and Londoners danced a new step last week, the "Tuscana." C. L. ("Lambeth Walk") Heimann and Lyric Writer Eric Maschwitz created the new "Wop Trot," named for the "Wolves of Tuscany." Basic movement: one step forward, two back. Chorus...
...tremendous appetite and temper whom the British thought they had at Bardia, but who escaped by motorboat. Recalling the old saw about the British being a nation of shopkeepers, an enthusiastic BBC announcer telling of the Bengasi victory' exclaimed: "The British are rapidly becoming a nation of wop-keepers...
Some noisy fish, Interior vows, make a sound like a click beetle just by snapping their heads sharply upward. At night off the Florida coast sea drums parade, crying "wop, wop, wop." Meagres sometimes sound like a hurdy-gurdy. You can hear a South American catfish "growl" for a hundred feet when he breaks water. Even Homer's fabled song of the sirens is fishy to Interior: it was probably just a shoal of weakfish warbling their weed notes wild...
Joseph Valentine (Guiseppe Valentino), who calls himself a "dago wop," has followed Deanna Durbin's cinema growth from a pup. Most great reputations in the business are built on subdued arty effects -the specialties of Toland, Gaudio and chunky Chinese James Wong Howe-but Valentine has won his colors with gaiety. The lilt he catches in the gait of Deanna Durbin swinging along, singing a song, is the difference between making a musical bright and fluffy or allowing it to settle like cold soufflé. Dark, athletic, with a Cupid's-bow mustache, Valentine is a leader...