Word: niggerness
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...Ferguson talked, with figures and statements supporting his argument beside him. He leaned back in his chair clasping his neck with his left hand. He has extraordinary charm. His language is rich and picturesque, his grammar all his own. 'A nigger-lipped sand-lapper,' was the description of one opponent. He described the unwillingness of politicians to leave office as, 'You cain't cut a feller offen his clabber.' His enemies, he said, 'ain't worth hating, nohow...
...parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner," Russian depths and breath control. Most important are the actual scores of a dozen much-mangled...
Israel Baline came to fame, however, by refusing a tip. He worked in the saloon of Nigger Mike, famed Bowery bravo of 20 years ago, was known as the Singing Waiter because he warbled as he doled out lager to the Nigger's clients. Prince Louis of Battenberg, on a slumming party, went to hear him. Warmed by the lager, or pleased with the song, the Teuton princeling profered ten cents. Baline, unaccustomed to the ways of royalty, staggered back. The riff-raff stared; up stepped a ruddy reporter, overawed both Prince and waiter with a cataclysm of questions. Next...
...swift was the Singing Waiter's rise from Rags to Riches that the reversal hardly lends enough body to his biographer's Cinderella-theme. When Berlin was 19, Nigger Mike discharged him. Within four years, he had written a tune which was played in every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody...
...window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from the ledger where the black blot was spreading; down...