Word: yassuh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas "Fats" Waller had an idea. He chuckled gaily, and stamped his foot with enthusiasm. "Yassuh!" he laughed. "You is gonna c'mon downstairs to de boys' dressin' room and hear dose cats swing on down in a jam session!" He trotted to the elevator, his blue bathrobe swirling to expose a mighty calf. "Are you gonna bring up dat machine fo' yo' Mister Waller, Dad " he called down the shaft...
Amen. . . . Yassuh. . . . Praise de Lawd...
...choking her and knocking her down. Her hysterical screams bring a crowd. Unwilling to implicate her lover, she babbles that a Negro attacked her. Among the colored folk arrested for questioning is Lonnie. Unlike the other dejected crows in the lineup, big Lonnie refuses to drool servilely: "Yassuh, cap'n. . . . Nawssuh. cap'n. . . . Dat's right, cap'n. . . ." He has been helping a white labor organizer recruit a stevedores' union on the Stuyvesant Docks. He stubbornly stands for his rights, makes a bad impression at the police station...