Senator George Hoar was once enthusiastically greeted by a man whose face he barely recognized and could not place. "How are you, Senator?" the man asked. "And how is Mrs. W?"
[Trivia: In 2003, a new Italian board game named Puttanopoly was unveiled. Players, who assume the roles of immigrant prostitutes enslaved by the mafia, must dodge police raids, avoid turf wars and escape serial killers to earn a living.]
Hoar, George Frisbie (1826-1904) American politician, congressman (R-Massachusetts, 1869-77) and senator (R-Massachusetts, 1877-1904)