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With mercenary indignation, she goes to bed with the Major in a room above the bar. When he comes out of this room, the Major looks over the banisters at tru café, full of the black soldiers of his regiment, drinking and laughing and watching a Senegalese Negro, who, in red breeches, is dancing, with a knife in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...tumble.* Dey rubs de welcome off de mat. Dey tink he ought to be punished all his life. Why, dere was a guy come out of de jug only four days ago wit' ten dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says he wants to study bugs-dat's nuts-and I've just got him a job at Central Islip. Dat's because I'm in de Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cross Bones | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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