Word: niggerness
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...that effect. As the successful Broadway producer, Charles Winninger turns in the most believable performance. He is the peg from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...
George Trivers held his story until he was well away from Annapolis: Instructors had treated him all right but midshipmen warned, "Nigger, stay away from us." During drill his toes were literally stepped on. In the gymnasium he could not pick up a basketball without having it snatched away. He went without sleep because the white boys pounded on the walls until the room seemed ready to cave in. Weak or strong, George Trivers decided enough was enough...
...working capital to finance increasing business and $22,000,000 was to reduce interest charges by retiring 5 ½%, 6 ½% and 7% obligations of Goodrich and its subsidiary, Hood Rubber. This plan was blocked when only 74% instead of the necessary 75% of the stockholders approved. Nigger-in-the-woodpile was Cleveland's once famed banker and utility tycoon Cyrus Stephen Eaton, whose old firm, Otis & Co., having been refused a share in underwriting the proposed issue, circularized Goodrich stockholders to prevent approval of the mortgage (TIME, July 29, 1935). Thus for a whole year that tire went...
...South Carolinian by inheritance and don't like to see her slandered by such careless statements as you made in your recent [Aug. 24] article on the joint campaigning of Senatorial candidates. Your statements and inferences on the importance of the Nigger and Republican vote are quite correct as evidenced by the total vote of less than 2,000 for Mr. Hoover in 1932. You are surprisingly fair, for a Yankee publication, when you point out that some Niggers do vote and thus infer that none are denied the franchise...
...That's why I am trying to get you Bilbo folks to join me in saving him from his own blunder. When that time comes poor Bilbo will be confronted with the old nigger preacher's text which he said would be found in the 19th Chapter and 16th verse of Duteronimy ∣sic∣ and reads as follows: 'And Jonah said unto the whale, if you had kept your damned mouth shut, this never would have happened...