Word: greaser
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...Were astounded at a slip of the tongue by social-climbing Dominions Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. That onetime engine greaser seemed to imply that His Majesty's Government plan to avoid the general election constitutionally due by November 1936, at the latest, by declaring the Empire in a "state of emergency" under which the National Government could rule for three years more...
...Greaser" Protest...
Sirs: ... [I wish] to support the implied protest of Mr. Gutierrez concerning the use of the term "greaser" in your magazine [TIME, Nov. 12], The majority of Spanish American people in New Mexico are farmers and herders, and therefore are in general poor. By applying the term "greaser" to them you apply it to a large minority, if not to a majority of the population of the State. To these people the term is obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self...
...Joined the nation in a chorus of cluck-clucking amazement when it was discovered that the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, onetime engine greaser, now Secretary of State for the Dominions, had signed above King George and Queen Mary on the bridal register of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
...least as long as 85 years ago Westerners called Mexicans "greasers," according to Ruxton's Life Far West, "from their greasy appearance." The name stuck to the poorer class of Mexican, and in that sense TIME characterized Senator Bronson Cutting as "the faithful friend of the lowly 'greaser...