Word: uppityness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By last week, Amy Mallard was probably as unpopular in Toombs County, Ga. as her husband Robert ("Big Duck") Mallard had been before he was lynched. The lynching had caused a lot of trouble and almost everyone thought that was Amy's fault. Big Duck had been a "real...
For a while Joe was an ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and...
At 51, Ed Kobak is an unpressed little man with a face that might have been clipped from any old banquet photograph -shy, inexact grin, blurred eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck...
White Tie and Tails (Universal-International) takes place in the never-never land of romantic farce. It is an agile, simpleminded frolic about a butler, an heiress and a gambler. Dan Duryea, whose pinched, deep-frozen face has heretofore made him particularly suited to playing down-at-heel mugs, is...
John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She...