词汇 | sacco-vanzetti pencils |
词源 | Sacco-Vanzetti pencils. These were originally named Ham- mer pencils for the American brothers who set up the first Sovi- et factory in the 1920s. But the controversial U.S. murder trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927 made far better propaganda, the two capitalists (the Ham- mer brothers) losing out to the two anarchists. Many books by great American writers were written about Sacco and Vanzetti, including a novel by Upton Sinclair (Boston), the plays Gods of the Lightning and Winterset by Maxwell Anderson, and sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay. |
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