another old-timey (double-)ethnic slur

[Joel S. Berson]

I'm confident Larry will find not a few additional anti-Jewish slurs
in Sayers.  And various other English mystery writers of various periods.

Joel

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:
>
>"She's got a stack of money and the meanness of fifty thousand Scotch
>Jews rolled into one."
>
>--Dorothy L. Sayers, _The Nine Tailors_ (1934)
>
>LH
>
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