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Beyond sauerkraut and Blutwurst and good German beer, Angoff suggests, Mencken thrived on prejudices. His private league of nations included the American "boobeoisie," the "bloody English," the "stinking frogs," the "dirty wops" and the "Irish monkeys." New Hampshire and Vermont were "the varicose veins of New England," and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken Redivivus | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Now they'll be called cowards and clowns, washouts and wops, and a people who love everybody will wind up with the hate and disgust of everyone.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

In Chicago, Colosimo's murder moved Capone up. Now he was cheek by jowl with Diamond Jim's lieutenant, Johnny Torrio. The two worked well together. In four years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Theodore Badger, President of the New England Grenfell Association. Ray Dennett of Phillips Brooks House, and several "wops"--With-Out-Pay workers--will attend a dinner given for Grenfell and his daughter this evening at the Faculty Club.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRENFELL MAKES ONLY APPEARANCE IN BOSTON | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Professionals criticize the free lances for using popular stereotypes (the "robot" Germans, the "individualistic" French, the "cowardly wops," the "bemused" Russians). They point out that before the World War the German Imperial Army was drilled to the teeth, yet the German mechanical marvel did not fall apart before the attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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