Word: black-bottom
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...list of the world's great foods would have to include such Southern elegances as she-crab soup, terrapin stew, jambalaya, black-bottom pie, gumbo or pompano en papillote...
...temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom, deals with an old Negro's denial and final acceptance of modern medical methods. Best shots-Gummy, whose feet hurt...
...Chicago, one Otto Teeter, traveling man, posed proudly for a Tribune photographer to show off his new "black-bottom" trousers? white flannel with black cuffs...
...three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while his memory of an Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover on still another. By proper punctuation and emphasis, such a production may be made colorful, clear, rapid, nervous, like jazz music. But, though the new playwrights deserve credit for the enterprise, Mr. Lawson's "farce...
...York American's Christmas Fund, good people. Don't miss it. Famous musicians, jazz babies, black-bottom wrigglers, prima donnas perform as the freaks are led out. Get the most for your dollar...
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