"Niggard" + N-word

Fri May 26 20:53:40 UTC 2006

It's comic in that two-fisted, thrill-packed, laff-a-minute style that used to characterize the pulps.  See, a couple of Yanks - one smart, the other dumb - were down on their luck in French Syria not long after the war....

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Good catch, Jon! Is the story serious or comic? That snippet seems kinda funny.
-Wilson

On 5/25/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> Limited Horizons: The Evidence of History :
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> 1924 _McClure's Magazine_ (March) 15 : "A niggardly and disgusting habit," I commented.
> ..."Just lay off that 'nigger' stuff after this," warned Pete.
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> JL
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