Word: niggerness
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Irving Berlin once worked as a waiter in Nigger Mike's, an East Manhattan saloon. His talent was schooled by the clink and shuffle of a nickelodeon. Critics have often pointed meaningly to this fact saying that a man who could emerge from such a background with an equipment as fine as Mr. Berlin's?lacking perhaps the sophistication of George Gershwin, the light-foot fantasy of Jerome Kern, but authentic and interesting nevertheless?must be indeed a genius. So the phrase"Words and Music by Irving Berlin" has come to mean certain things to the U. S. public...
...through the streets to burial merits no description. And the words?like the words of "All Alone", like the words of "Remember", like the words of all Mr. Berlin's songs except, possibly "I'm a K. P."?are exactly the words one would expect a waiter in Nigger Mike's Cafe to write, in a trickly moment, on a beer-stained menu, behind the nickelodeon...
...Subscriber Smith consult his Webster's Unabridged. "Infuscate" means "darkened with a brownish tinge"; was employed as a synonym for "nigger," "Negro," "blackamoor"; has no reference to intoxication...
...been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...
...Lincoln. We are only told that, as the couple waltzed near him, Booth spun on his heel in fury and strode away. Pausing before his friend and confidante, Mrs. Temple, he blazed: "I am done! Tell her so; tell her to take her blue-coated son of a nigger-loving President...