Word: mistah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra ticket, mistah?" The urchins were flanking him, demanding his attention, scowling at him. "Got an extra ticket?" He stopped in the middle of Larz Anderson Bridge and carefully poured one eye-socket of bourbon...
...Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph to The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot saluted this defeat: "Mistah Kurtz?he dead," quoted Eliot, recognizing that no man is more hollow than the defeated egotist...
...nonentity in his white boss's house but a patriarch in his own, is simply distressed by the news: "I don' know . . . But I cain't see Saul goin' to school wid white kids ... I cain't see me sittin' side o' Mistah Charles on the bus neitha . . I think they's plenty mo' feel the same way. I hope they don' push...
...Mistah Chairman, Mistah Chairman." A red-faced man in work overalls was mimicing with a screechy, beery voice. The colored woman turned to him, then turned back to the television...
...loves to play the horses, but he believes that gambling undermines the character of anyone else within his satrapy. Although he has lost some of his power in Tennessee, he still runs Memphis with an iron hand. When he heard that gamblers were operating in his city last month, Mistah Crump reached for his gilded telephone...