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If the teleprompter fails, he shuts his mouth and stands there looking like an unusually frightened and stupid cigar-store Indian in a $3000suit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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If the teleprompter fails, he shuts his mouth and stands there looking like an unusually frightened and stupid cigar-store Indian in a $3000 suit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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Particularly striking are the cigar-store Indians, sculptures of warriors and princesses that stood outside tobacco shops to advertise their wares.
Telling Our Story Across the Pond Richard Holledge 2011
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Particularly striking are the cigar-store Indians, sculptures of warriors and princesses that stood outside tobacco shops to advertise their wares.
Telling Our Story Across the Pond Richard Holledge 2011
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On exhibit were cigar-store Indians, spittoons, hookahs and a three-foot Meerschaum pipe with a relief carving of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
U.S. Tobacco's Chief Made Dipping Hip Stephen Miller 2010
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If the teleprompter fails, he shuts his mouth and stands there looking like an unusually frightened and stupid cigar-store Indian in a $3000 suit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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If the teleprompter fails, he shuts his mouth and stands there looking like an unusually frightened and stupid cigar-store Indian in a $3000suit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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It was her powerful influence that impelled President Hayes to ban wine and spirits from the White House entirely, save for his eight-to-noon "morning medicine," which he shared with his inner circle, a group he affectionately called "the usual gang of idiots": Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, Mexican industrialist Jose Cuervo, and a wooden cigar-store Indian who, in keeping with the simple, unaffected racism of the time, they named Heap Big.
Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil: Variations on a Theme by David McCullough 2009
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Chucky was actually expressive too, not his usual cigar-store Indian look ...
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It's a slightly more nuanced version of cigar-store Indians, Mammy and the inscrutable Chinaman.
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