"Wop" in 1908?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:39 AM -0400 4/29/10, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>From LOC site:
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>_The Sun_ (New York NY), 26 Aug. 1907: p. 5:
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><< [title] BATTLE OF THE SEWER PIPES / THE WOPS AND THE YIDS WAGE WAR IN
>JAMES STREET / It All Began When the Giannini Dog Tackled the
>Lichtenstein Cat .... /

Love it.  Didn't Conway and Loretta record "Giannini Dog,
Lichtenstein Cat" before finding more success with "Louisiana Woman,
Mississippi Man"?

LH

>The armed truce which had bridged hostilities
>between the Oak street Wops and the Madison street Yids ....>>
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>[Here I see additionally 4 instances of "Wop dog" and 8 instances of
>"the Wops", along with <<Out came a Yid and a Wop, interlocked.>>]
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>_The Evening World_ (New York NY), 25 June 1907 (Final Results Ed.): p. 12:
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>[boxing] <<At the Brown A. A. on West Twenty-third street, Joe
>Bernstein, the champion of the Ghetto, will tackle Frankie Paul, the Wop
>champion, in a six-round go.>>
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>[maybe a different sense]
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>_The Evening World_ (New York NY), 13 Apr. 1907 (Final Results Ed.): p.
>8(?):
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><<"There's plenty of peasants these days, kids. Only we call them
>muckers and wops. ....">>
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>_The Sun_ (New York NY), 18 Nov. 1906: sec. 2, p. 16:
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><<There was a time, not very long ago, when you couldn't find a Wop --
>that means an Italian in the latest downtown dialect -- in Danny's
>resort even by using a microscope. But to-day it's different. The
>members of the Five Points gang, all dark skinned sons of Sicily, grew
>tired of flitting from place to place, with no set rendezvous for their
>nightly gatherings. A number of the Pointers used to frequent the place,
>and it wasn't long before the entire gang became regulars.>>
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>_The Sun_ (New York NY), 16 Feb. 1906: p. 3:
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>[arrests in a larceny] <<Besides Lyons and Murphy, he says, there were
>in it Albert Moquin ... and one whom Lyons calls "Oscar the Wop," or
>"Oscar the Dago.">>
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>It's hard to search for such a short word because most of the 'hits' are
>OCR errors.
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>-- Doug Wilson
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