Word: niggerness
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...turn them away. About dark an old grey-haired Negro, perhaps 65 years old, shuffled up. "Boss, I wants a job." "Sorry. Lige, I have more men now than I need." "Boss, I jes' got to have a job. Dese is de hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain and I's hungry. I knows I can't work like a young nigger but I can still chop a little and don't care...
...Detroit prepared to receive its visitors, the largest convention of Legionnaires ever held. Three members of the "Little Jewish Navy'' gang were executed in an apartment house for hijacking $110,000 worth of liquor which had been imported to slake the palates of thirsty Legionnaires. One of the deceased, ''Nigger Joe" Leiboutz, was not only a Legion member but belonged to the local committee for the registration of delegates...
...TIME may be justified in exalting Indian womanhood above all other, in delicately complimenting the nation's Vice President by calling his grandmother a "squaw." The "nigger wenches" of America may have no reason to feel hurt that TIME should call them merely "Negro women.'' TIME, as usual, is doubtless right: honor where honor...
...distinction: "Chink," "Mick." "Wop." "Dago," "Nigger." and "wench" are words invented by Anglo-Saxons for derisive application to non-Anglo-Saxons. But Anglo-Saxons learned from Indians to call Indian women "squaws." Squaw is the Narragansett (and Algonquin) Indian word meaning "a female" just as sannnp means a male Indian, a brave. TIME will continue using "squaw." with no derision intended or conveyed...
...GENTLEMEN ALL" is the story of the futile attempts of an ambitious young Southern gentleman, seh, to escape from the pleasant, shiftless life of mint juleps, old nigger retainers, horses, duels, and all the other romantic and lazy trappings that are said to obtain south of the Mason Dixon line...