Word: fetchit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first round, however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With...
Speeding through Harlem, drawling Negro Comic Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Perry) had a blowout, smashed his Lincoln sedan into an Elevated pillar, cracked his skull, demolished...
Additional rumors that Steppin Fetchit was planning to enter a New Haven institution were quickly quashed with announcement that he has no raccoon coat...
With the exception of Frank Morgan and Stepin Fetchit, the supporting cast is mediocre. Given a difficult role as Shirley's light-fingered grandfather, Morgan plays with excellent restraint...
Typical Chanese maxim: "Theory, like mist on eyeglasses, obscures fact." Good shot: the Negro retainer (Stepin Fetchit) losing his flashlight in a tomb which he considers to be a convention hall for "hants...