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...Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before his train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken every Sunday...
...Never 'talk down' to any group or individual or engage in the use of derogatory terms such as nigger, boy, spic, wop, kike, chink, shine, burrhead, dago, polack, bohunk and the like...
...specialized in fund raising, and Young's partner, a well-to-do widow named Elizabeth Tyler. Young set forth the Klan's goal in terms of Christian morality v. sin. The enemies of America, the Klan proclaimed, were booze, loose women, Jews, Negroes, Roman Catholics (whose "dago" Pope was bent on taking over the U.S.), and anybody else who was not a native-born white Protestant Anglo-Saxon. Many churchmen across the nation acclaimed the Klan's program, and in the South especially, Methodist and Baptist clergymen lent the K.K.K. massive support. It was not long before...
Pinned Together. Yogi was born Lawrence Peter Berra 38 years and a million laughs ago. He grew up in St. Louis, in what was then unselfconsciously known as the "Dago Hill" section. He never got through the ninth grade. When people asked him how he liked school, he replied, "Closed." Yankee scouts found him on the sandlots, and the first time he showed up for spring training, the veterans just stared. He had a frame like a fire hydrant and a face like a fallen souffle, and when he walked, he looked as if his trousers were pinned together...
...often uninformed"), who come and go every three years. Tackling this problem, the Navy is now out to find Annapolis a civilian academic dean "of national rank." Boroff is not sanguine about the "Brother Rat mentality" at Annapolis, where foreign language study (a first-rate department) is known as "dago," and the catch-all department of English, history and government is called the "Bull Department...