Word: mister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett County." Clapped into jail, he was speedily...
...denounced the sitting business as "A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL DECENCY," then printed all week furious threats to Japan, Germany and every other nation with which the Soviet Union might find itself at war. Roared Pravda, official organ of the Party: "History is working in our favor, and know ye, Mister Imperialist, that if you impose war on us we will fight, not on our territory, but on yours...
...House post on the first ballot next month, Democrat Byrns began to expand, to think of himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle Joe. I don't like that 'Mister'." Washington chuckled, seeing only the remotest similarity between him and that other "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the late great Speaker (TIME, March 3, 1923). Wags suggested that to distinguish the two it would be best to call Speaker-Apparent Byrns. "Old White...
...later. Between times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister and Missus Is the Name...
...white girls and their tipsy escorts crowded about the platform of Memphis' Casino Ballroom. While they pawed his trousers, grabbed at his coat, Galloway, whose skin is much lighter than his players', referred to his "boys" as "Mr. Payne. Mr. Maxey. . . ." At the first "Mister" the crowd grumbled. At the second chairs began to fly. Off the stage scuttled resplendent Bandmaster Galloway and his frightened blacks. Up over the platform swarmed resentful whites, brawling, falling over each other until police cleared the Casino...