Word: wop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between) And the steward falls into the souptureen And the trunks begin to slide . . . Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed) You're Fifty North and Forty West!"-Rudyard Kipling
...Wop v. General. Hero of the book is Major Joppolo. He is patient, tenacious, understanding, humble in the sense of being willing to drudge for what he believes in, and possessed of a genuine love for Adano, the place and the people. This love is epitomized in his effort to get the people of Adano a church bell to replace the bell the Nazis carried off for scrap. Sometimes it seems that Major Joppolo is the only person who loves the villagers. Certainly he is the only one who has a practically realizable vision of what democracy can bring...
...Yorker cartoon (by Robert Day-see cut) showed a songwriter dreaming up: Stop the Wop, Rip into Nippon, The Hun is done...
Closest crony and bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...
...Wop (Italian...