Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in The American Forum: "The mongrel Negro race in America is rapidly approaching an awful crisis. . . . They go rollicking and cakewalking, apparently unaware of the storm that must inevitably burst...
...were psychopaths. Most of their pay went to liquor dealers and moonshiners. "They're hell-raisers and do no good to anybody," said Charleston police. At Blaney some 15 veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying off the streets to avoid the rest. More nuisance than menace, however, the veterans were so broken-spirited...
Here's for superhuman power to the lungs and diaphragm of Roberta Keene Tubman next time she is forced by her loyal Americanism to pit '"The Star-Spangled Banner" against the mongrel "Internationale" [TIME...
...other room of the house, without chairs, beds, or tables, a woman lay rolled up in some quilts trying to sleep. On the floor before an open fire lay two babies, neither a year old, sucking the dry teats of a mongrel bitch. A young girl, somewhere between fifteen and twenty, squatted on the corner of the hearth trying to keep warm...
...Admirers of George Wilbur Peck's 1883 classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel dog. When he writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns...