Word: mistuh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several visitors to Gee's Bend, Ala. were talking to an old Negro, and making heavy weather of it. The old man spotted a friend and called out: "Mistuh Johnson, Mistuh Johnson! Come on over hyar and understan...
Boss Edward Hull Crump, of Memphis, Tenn.. once offered to guarantee a bright young Washington attorney a handsome law practice if he would settle in Mistuh Crump's town. All the lawyer had to promise in return was to develop an intelligent, invigorating opposition to the all-powerful Crump political organization. Nothing came of this ingenious idea for keeping the Crumpets in fighting trim, so Ed Crump had to go on putting up with Tom Collier...
...Negroes prudently stayed away from the stores. At Meadville, Hamburg and White Apple, at Knoxville and Little Springs and Bogue Chitto, something more was in the air than a January breeze. Hard-eyed white men got out their guns, went hunting in the swamps along the Homochitto River. Mistuh P. A. Cooper and his bloodhounds arrived from Brandon. Major T. B. Birdsong brought a troop of National Guardsmen. A hunt was on for two black bucks who supposedly had killed a white constable. A cold, scared Negro whose feet were cased in gunnysacks showed himself to a posse, got peppered...
...Knoxville and the TVA. There is Middle Tennessee, the Cumberland plateau, a land of bluegrass, rich farms, horsey squires (who keep a fighting-cock in the tobacco barn), of Nashville, "Athens of the South." There is cotton-growing West Tennessee, flatland of "red-necks," of Memphis, and Beale Street, Mistuh Ed Crump and the Mississippi...