Word: erst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush of their own choosing, who will resent this invasion of an erst-while informal field...
Somewhat disillusioned now by his erst while Negrophile friends and acquaintances, Claude McKay looks forward to a "great modern Negro leader" who can think up a better solution to the Negro problem than taking them back to Africa...
...beer, sends his sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king, brings the action to a head with shootings, typewriters, pineapples, and fights in the approved style, with, of course, the appropriate happy ending...