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Word: nigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Tammany's Rothstein | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Pure Alloway | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Ejected from a restaurant, he soon found out what his mother never taught him, that if you were a nigger you were degraded. The thing to do was find a menial job. You could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Remarked the nearby Greensboro News : "Gaston County is desperately near the mood to try a dozen or more malcontents for murder and condemn them for what they think of God, marriage and the nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Textile Trial | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...here we don't care if all the Negroes are lynched, or even burned or slit open with knives. The outrageous, damnable, unbearable spectacle of lawlessness of the Negro is infinitely greater than would be the entire extermination of the cursed race by the white man. The Northern "nigger-lovers" are going to be forced to see our position some day. ELDON O. HALDANE Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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