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Updated: May 13, 2025
The joke about the "neg-rose" has since run the gauntlet of nearly all the minstrel bands throughout England and America. All the "bones," every "middle-man," and all "end-men" of the burnt-cork profession have used Artemus Ward as a mine wherein to dig for the ore which provokes laughter.
He remembered it as the emblem of low-down show business, and associated it with end-men and blackened faces and grotesque shirt-collars. "It's all the rage," Mela shouted, in answer for all. "Everybody plays it. Mr. Beaton borrowed this from a lady friend of his." "Humph! Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos. "A banjo would have been cheaper."
"Yes," she answered, shortly, out of humor that he should be as careful of Lloyd's comfort as her own. She trudged along, taking no part in the conversation. It was a general one, extending all along the line, for Rob at the tail and Ranald at the head shouted jokes and questions back and forth like end-men at a minstrel show.
He remembered it as the emblem of low-down show business, and associated it with end-men and blackened faces and grotesque shirt-collars. "It's all the rage," Mela shouted, in answer for all. "Everybody plays it. Mr. Beaton borrowed this from a lady friend of his." "Humph! Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos. "A banjo would have been cheaper."
He remembered it as the emblem of low-down show business, and associated it with end-men and blackened faces and grotesque shirt-collars. "It's all the rage," Mela shouted, in answer for all. "Everybody plays it. Mr. Beaton borrowed this from a lady friend of his." "Humph! Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos. "A banjo would have been cheaper."
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