Word: jes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never stays in one place mo' 'n fo' weeks," boasts Black Ulysses. "Leastwise, never mo' 'n five. . . . Sometimes I knows where I wants to go, an' sometimes I jes' git on to go anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta...
Free to bust up a prayer meetin' or a quiltin' jamboree: lights out, shots in the dark, screams, "Lawd, my daddy hurt?"-and all "jes' for the hell...
...dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite to the ballot, in which case Negro political aspirants are asked what is meant by the four kinds of ex post facto laws as set forth in the case...
...Caillaux and part of the delegation were entertained by Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign Affairs, at luncheon. The other guests included: Paul D. Cravath, John W. Davis, Herman Har-jes, Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Russell C. Leffingwell, James H. Perkins, Seward Prosser, Benjamin Strong, Paul M. Warburg, Walter Lippmann, Julian Mason, Frank A. Munsey, Rollo Ogden, Frank L. Polk...