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...alife odder be he dat...
...cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...
...breathes all the mysterious and sinister significance of the "Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals as "dat slue-footed hypercrite." But most of the time, horses gallop, blood flows, hero rescues, villain pursues, disguises disguise?all in the author's most approved manner and with the technique developed in his Birth of a Nation (cinematized by Griffith) and The Southerner...
...only four days ago wit' ten dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says he wants to study bugs-dat's nuts-and I've just got him a job at Central Islip. Dat's because I'm in de Marshall Stillman Movement...
...Neill has dramatized Coleridge's Ancient Mariner without making it any less a tribute to "dat old Davil sea." Following the simple process of eliminating a few lines from the poem, he does not add a single phrase of his own except in the stage directions which-with the help of some lights-transform the poem into a drama. Following these directions, the Mariner mouths his anguished story at the Wedding Guest he has stopped; while the ghosts of the crew that died for his misdeed act as a muffled, mummified chorus...