Word: uppityness
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^ Conservative, uppity little Rhode Island went Democratic with a bang, tossed out young (38) Republican Governor William H. Vanderbilt, of "the" Vanderbilts, horseman and gentleman farmer. In by a mere 37,000 votes squeaked younger (36) James Howard McGrath, real-estate and insurance man, who was U. S. Attorney in...
All sessions of rich, potent B. R. T.'s quadrennial convention were closed to outsiders including the press. President Whitney forbade the 975 delegates to talk out of meeting, could & would oust any who disobeyed. The few who might have been inclined to do so remembered what happened to...
In Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch...
Until he was 32, little doe-eyed Jonah, the Tyre cakeseller, merely talked with the Lord for his own personal pleasure. But when he was ordered on a propaganda mission to Nineveh, the pleasure went out of it. Why pick on him, said Jonah, he wasn't interested in...
Speaking on "Why Boston Hates Harvard" before an American Civilization group in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, Boston City Councilman Robert A. Norton blamed this feeling of animosity on the fact that the community does not know Harvard and the University is "uppity" in its attitude to...