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American working class was practically invited to share in this new exploitation, and particularly were flattered by popular appeals to their inherent superiority to "Dagoes," "Chinks," "Japs," and "Niggers."
The Negro 1915
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England, where master and man are racially identical, and where there is no variety of "Dagoes" to break up the revolt.
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Then you roll into the station that has 150 miles of track and, if you stand there long enough, you will see out of the numerous trains that like serpents wend their winding way into that great station come people from all parts of the world, old and new -- from old France and Italy and Latin races of Europe, the Teutonic, and from this part of Canada, and from the United States, and what they call "Dagoes," all pouring themselves into this vast country, and entering the station with the one fixed idea that they have come to make this country their future home.
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The Dagoes an 'some of the old Irish dames thinks she's a witch.
CHAPTER II 2010
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Americans, you know, and not Dagoes and Japs and such.
CHAPTER III 2010
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The operator said, "Oh, hell; Dagoes are cheaper than props!"
Mother Jones Speaks to Striking Coal Miners (historical) 2007
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I was reared to hate Nazis, Japs (or Nips), and Wops (or Dagoes as my totally biased and prejudiced uncle used to call them).
Conductor, Slow Down, Please Let Me Off This Bus The Daily Growler 2006
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That's the horror of the fourth degree, as the Inquisitors knew - but while their heretics and religious idiots could always get off by telling the bloody Dagoes what they wanted to hear, I couldn't.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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That's the horror of the fourth degree, as the Inquisitors knew — but while their heretics and religious idiots could always get off by telling the bloody Dagoes what they wanted to hear, I couldn't.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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There was lascars, of course, and Dagoes of various descriptions, Filippinos, Greeks, Malay Arabs, and every variety of slant-eye.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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