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Buildings and Groun? ?? ratified Friday a new Harvard ?? which they had rejected last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workers ??y B and G Ag??ent | 2/3/1970 | See Source »

...Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark in the col', col' groun'. In the fury of his ingratitude, he is obliged to cuff Mulatto De Carlo for flouncing around like uppity white trash, even trains an unsteady revolver on Massa Clark himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin' to the sky? How come all this heah bullet-blood runnin' outen yoh skull-pate all oveh the groun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reactionary Old Fogy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Howdy, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. 'You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin', sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laughed en laughed twel he couldn't laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Suits | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered an address, declared that: 1) manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Up South | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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