Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...
...Vincent Millay." He has addressed "such widely separated institutions as Miss McGehee's in New Orleans and Miss Porter's in Farmington, Conn., to the number...
...inspiring, which accounts in no small degree for the alleged lack of Monarchist sentiment in Saxony. It is said that on one occasion, when he was standing in uniform upon a station platform, a lady asked him to move her trunk. He replied suavely: "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like...
...porter and a fireman...