Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, a competition to carry the U. S. public in the air looms between the backers of a 25-year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane...
Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
...people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives are not made the subject of Negro literature, Mr. Hughes thought that they were fortunate in being neglected. For, said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture, their slavish devotion to Nordic standards, their snobbishness, their detachment from the Negro masses and their vast sense of importance to themselves. . . . [Such a book] would be more wrathfully damned than Nigger Heaven? at present vibrating throughout the land in its eleventh edition...
...edification of yourself and the readers of TIME I respectfully refer you to Guy de Maupassant's short story "Mademoiselle Fifi," wherein you may learn of the characteristic difference between Jewish and non-Jewish filles de joie. Which may also explain why Princes of Royal Nordic descent prefer Jewesses...
...appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world's highest." They saw the muscular, furious, aging Christ striding over the world more like a scourge than...