Word: desing
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...clerking by day, had a wife, two children and debts totaling $500 when he passed his bar examinations. The debts were soon paid off, for as a lawyer he did well, especially with Negro cases. His dark clients called him "de bes' niggah lawyah dat atten's dese...
...content of the questionees' responses. Insisted a superior: "That taxi driver you ran this morning looks straight out of Sing Sing and you have him talking like Nicholas Murray Butler. Just put the words down as they come out of their mouths." Jimmy obeyed, not sparing a single dese, dem or dose. Posses of furious questionees stormed the News, and the management frantically ordered Jimmy back to word-painting...
...things failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese ard all. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...
...Government abandoned direct relief, bought the bankrupt sugar plantations and broke them up into homesteading units, matriarchal Rhoda was delighted. She picked out the best tract she could find, then let Adam come and live with her on it. "De only way to get de devil out of dese people," she said, "is to sweat it out. Noodeal's done tried restin' it out, an' it didn't work...
...vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin...