Word: nordics
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...fought loyally for their masters and that "white slave" discontent never reached the proportions of a rebellion; while the constitutional question was a mere pretext for economic grievances which gradually became more prominent, until the war was fought out simply to secure control of the railroads. The Jewish or Nordic government had the advantage in financial strength and man-power, but the Negroes were a compact body known as the Solid South and had superior technical skill in working the railroad system. Through this control of communications the Southern party was victorious, and the Negroes won complete control of rail...
...noble Nordic of Richard Harding Davis fame who tamed wild generals and won beautiful women in the hot Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type becomes a trifle boring the exaggerated romances of Davis still retain some of their old charm; and when one of his adventurers actually appears on the crowded walls of lower Manhattan the mostest jaded Broadwayite is tempted to look. So with "Tex" O'Reilly...
...natural aftermath of war-time conscription of thought and its resultant intolerance is the 'Nordic nonsense," "said Professor Zechariah Chaffee L'13 in the course of an address on Conscription of Thought in Time of War and Its Effect Upon Peace" at the Radcliffe Conference on "Foreign Affairs...
...mean," he continued, "this absurd fashion of dismissing anybody you don't like with the words, 'Oh, he's a non-nordic.' During the war people became accustomed to the conscription of thought, and to intolerance of free discussion. That intolerance has continued through the years of peace following...
...Eliot quotes the biologists to the effect that Jews are prepotent in intermarriage (the implication being that this is the sorest spot in the whole scheme). I mention another who maintains that fusion of Nordic and Jewish stock produces the finest product yet known to "civilization." What Dr. Eliot maintains as fact then, I hold to be, as yet, mere opinion...