A little after seven, Big Harry, who has been on the men's door the 5 years let the extras in, one group made up of poorly dressed Negroes, the other a gang of ill-dressed whites, Italians and Jews.
Limousines turn suddenly and disgorge smartly dressed Negroes who disappear into night clubs.
Williams and his partner, George Walker, had been knocking about the minstrel circuit for three years, playing medicine shows and hoochy-coochy joints and, most memorably, a rough Colorado mining camp where, accused of being better dressed than Negroes ought to be, they had been stripped of their clothes and were lucky to exit with their lives.
The connoisseur was directed to acquire a "life-size Negro, dressed in the latest fashion, and sprawling in a cane chair".
The house Negro dressed like his master.
While stopped at the intersection, I glimpsed out of my eye a tall negro dressed in a white tank top, his skin high yellow like my own, crossing the street in what seemed like a beeline toward my car.
Two: The article was "pushing the idea that [Bernstein] was obsessively fixated on the figure of a 'Negro by the piano' (perhaps a case of projection on the part of [Wolfe])." In fact, Bernstein projected that figure himself in an apparition before the party and described it — "Within the curve of the piano sits a well-dressed Negro" — in John Gruen's "The Private World of Leonard Bernstein".
A record was cut off abruptly, the front curtain rose, a group of four whites and three Negroes was revealed, and the lead singer, dressed in a black stocking cap and brown pants and vest, leaned slightly sidewise, yawned briefly, and began to sing.
The changes to the story of "The Little Witch" are minor — in a brief carnival scene, German village children, who until now have dressed up as "little Negroes," "little Chinese girls," and "Turks," will in the future dress up as something more racially neutral.
(Later, a team from the Fatigue Laboratory went to Mississippi, to measure the sweat of sharecroppers living in Benoit — a town of "colorfully dressed, happy, and well-behaved negroes" — against the exertion of mules).
Some blacks began to dress up like Negroes.
