Word: niggerness
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...Roosevelt recognized this situation when he brought before Congress a lowered tariff and an increased quota for Cuba, and at the same time attempted to decrease the sugar beet production. But the howls of the Smoot coalition were not needed to remind him that the Philippine competition was the nigger in his economic woodpile...
...hold the prisoner on $25,000 bail pending an appeal to a special session of the U. S. Circuit Court later this month. But it did send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg, across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right to administer criminal justice in its own way. The South remembers the fugitive slave law whereby a Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase...
...Turpentine Cup which revolutionized the South's turpentine industry 30 years ago was Chemist Herty's invention. Theretofore, turpentine gatherers had ''boxed" and ruined the pines with a great gouge. Dr. Herty invented the present system of guttering the trees. (''A left-handed nigger with a right-handed axe'' accidentally taught him the best method of guttering.) From the gutters the turpentin runs into Herty cups, "flowerpots without holes...
Similarity of names is confusing. Your review of William Faulkner's "Nigger in a Woodpile," (Oct. 17) shows three characters Lucas Burch Byron Bunch Miss Burden...
...writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr. He says he never reads reviews of his books. The two books he most admires are Moby Dick and The Nigger of the Narcissus. His next book will be The Snopes Saga, for which he gives himself two years...