Word: wop
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...world, eh?" F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway: "The man can't write. Just a bad boy, who's probably afraid of the dark." As for Faulkner, "there is no more sense in him than in the wop boob, Dante . . . the man hasn't the slightest idea of sentence structure or paragraphing." Angoff drops an amusing footnote to the famed "Hatrack" episode in which Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for peddling an issue of the Mercury, banned for its story, by Herbert Asbury, of a southeast Missouri...
Carmine found out soon enough that kings are made, not born, in New York's racial and cultural jungles. De Sapio still winces when reminded of the "Wop" cry that came at him from all sides in his boyhood. The fact of his Italian ancestry has followed him always. It held him back in politics for precious years. De Sapio is talking about the old Irish bosses when he says, with low-keyed but intense anger, "I was the first leader they really gave the treatment to; I had to win three elections before they would seat...
...said, 'We had a close one the other night.' I said, 'Yeah?' So he goes on to tell me that [Jimmy] Ferraco and [Albert] Anastasia and himself were in a house waiting for somebody to bring some wop out there that they were supposed to kill and bury...
...without a country, or feels he is. Illegitimate son of a sporty Italo-American lawyer-millionaire and a destitute Kentucky belle, he spends his boyhood caroming around Europe. When he gets to the U.S. and Harvard Law School, the strain of being a "wop" makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict...
...Daily News, it was, said the colonel, "outstanding as the only supporter in the mayoral race of Vincent R. Impellitteri. Added Bertie': "They call him 'Impy.' I suggest he spell it: 'Im Pelley Terry,' so the Italians can take him for a 'Wop,' the English, so numerous in New York, for a Sassenach, and the Irish for a 'Turk.'" The colonel refused to be ruffled by the victory of international-minded Tom Dewey. It "is not a matter of remorse," said Bertie "because [Democrat Walter A.] Lynch was just...