Word: minstrell
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...York's clubby Mayor LaGuardia appeared next with Alfred Emanuel Smith in a minstrel show of the New York lodge of Elks. Drawing the line at lampblack and red silk pantaloons, Messrs. Smith & LaGuardia wore tails, acted as interlocutors for 100 blackface minstrels including Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York Supreme Court...
...Rudy did have a very excellent mimie with him, who stole the show, and must have exasperated his master by his innumerable encores and curtain calls. The luke-warm so-whatness of it all cheered the chippies in the third gallery; all grapefruit aside, the lay of last minstrel was more salivary than sexy...
...local clergymen have charged TIME of smart-aleckery in its writeup of the "Tolerance Trio" as closely resembling a minstrel show minus the black faces...
They were not in blackface, but otherwise a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and a Jewish rabbi who appeared last week in Chapel Hill, N. C. went through a religious routine which closely resembled a minstrel show. On the platform at the University of North Carolina's Memorial Hall, the Protestant asked the Catholic: "Do Catholics believe that all Protestants and Jews are going to Hell...
...three churchmen were employing minstrel technique for a definite purpose- to kindle tolerance and goodwill among their respective faiths. Called the "Tolerance Trio," they were embarked last week on a Southern tour under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a body jointly chair-manned by Protestant Newton Diehl Baker, Jew Roger Williams Straus and Catholic Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes. The first Tolerance Trio went out in the autumn of 1933, traveled 9,000 miles, visited 38 cities. The current trio is composed...