Word: dere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went to see him in his last days and I set by him and kept de files off while dere. I see the lines sorrow had plowed on dat old face, and I' membered he'd been a captain on hoss back indat war. It come into my 'membrance de song of Moses; de Lord had triumphed glorily and de hoss and his rider have been throwed into...
...father much. It's a mostly Polish and Eastern European neighborhood of second and third generation, with a few Irish and Italians and a Mexican contingent bordering to the north. The surnames are Polish; names like Rysky and Czarobski and Rybicki and Dombrowski; Poles who say da and dere for the and there because there is no th sound in the Polish language of their forefathers...
...consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop him down quick, then dey holler dat po' man up dere fightin' a go-rilla!" When white folks watch, Jefferson plays animal or vegetable. The 250-watt Satchmo grin flicks on at will, the massive shoulders shrug at circumstances beyond comprehension. But under the actor is the lava of black rage. When it erupts, the other players are inflamed. When...