another old-timey (double-)ethnic slur

[Jonathan Lighter]

And what's more, she probably invented his one herself.

JL

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> I'm confident Larry will find not a few additional anti-Jewish slurs
> in Sayers.  And various other English mystery writers of various periods.
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> Joel
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> At 12/14/2010 02:27 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >I'm familiar with the stereotypes of stinginess traditionally
> >associated with both Scots and Jews, but this casual remark still
> >took me slightly aback in its combo effect:
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> >"She's got a stack of money and the meanness of fifty thousand Scotch
> >Jews rolled into one."
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> >--Dorothy L. Sayers, _The Nine Tailors_ (1934)
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> >LH
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