jim crowism

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• “Barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.

• Michigan supposedly offered 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a $42 million contract, which would him the highest-paid coach in the NCAA.

• There was nothing out of the ordinary, but for the fact that Jim was gay.

• I was bored, but I grabbed a red Solo cup, filled it with beer, and stayed with my group, chatting with the brothers about Jim.

• Jim had to cajole me, as it was already late, and I was lounging around in sweats, book in hand.

• "So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.

• She has about as much intention of eloping with him as a little girl might have of eloping with a pasteboard Jim Crow.

• If you were to have a frank explanation with her, Blanche would very soon throw Jim Crow out of the window.

• He wrote the fine poem of “Little Jim,” which everyone knew, and which almost every boy and girl could recite.

• There's a little one inside—so narrow and twisted, Jim, that even I can hardly walk straight up it but have to go sidewise.