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...Jemmen," he began, "you all might as well go on back fuh ain't no good goin' to come of what you is up to. Yu is jest goin' to make trouble and hurt yo'se'ves and hurt Howard University. How is you goin' to git 'propriations ef you carry...

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

...might be a Uncle Tom nigguh, but you young nigguhs ain't doin' no good for yo'se'ves or anybody else. I'se respected but you all ain't nothin...

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

...ain't too brash, I'd like to tell Mr. Oven-dale that they ain't hardly none of us out here in the Bible Belt what goes to Kahlege, because we're so busy just a-scrapin' the cowdung off our heels an' plowin' the south forty an' one thing an' another that we just naturally don't have time. We don't hardly even have time to stretch our American brains, like he asked us to do. But we do know that the King of England shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...next to some kahlege kids an' asked them fer a proper, respectful title that TIME magazine could use in referrin' to George V, an' we thunk an' thunk fer a long time. We wanted something dignified, with plenty of dash an' sperrit. We ain't all quite satisfied, but we'll hit on it yet. We've decided on the main part. We think TIME ought to square off an' use the follerin' title when referrin' to George V: "His Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Sung with doleful nonchalance by its author, James Shelton, this Gutter Song is one of the pleasant moments in New Faces. So is a parody of grim Tobacco Road in which Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs impersonate Erskine CaldwelFs hungry gluttons. Squeaks the largest pig: "I ain't had anything to eat, pappy, sense we et mammy last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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