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Said Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Uncle Tom & Social Equality | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Suits | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...dealing wid de native scum

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: De Native Scum. . . | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Since the death twenty one years ago of John Lovett, "The Orange Man," whose greeting to Freshmen, "I knew your father, friend," and whose translation of Veritas as "Ter hell wid Yale," have made him immortal, Harvard has never had another mascot of such rare interest and popularity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John the Orangeman Catered Expertly to Collegiate Palates in Elegant Eighties--Was Colourful Mascot to Crimson Nines | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

...together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate had had some secret traffic with old John the Orangeman. But John, whene'er the thing was hinted at, swore roundly in his well known way, "Ter Hell wid Yale!"--disclaiming thus his offspring. Thus Lampy's disinheritance has been advanced by some as cause sufficient for his marked dislike of County Corkers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S BIRTHDAY CONFESSIONS | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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