Word: blackamoor
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...decided to live there permanently, have taken a house on Hampstead Heath. Fortnight ago U. S. radio-listeners heard Actor Robeson broadcast from London a talk on "How It Feels for an American Negro to Play Othello to an English Audience." Said he: Shakespeare meant Othello to be a "blackamoor;" without the difference in race between Othello and Desdemona the jealousy theme is implausible, the tragedy falls to pieces. Robeson hopes to play Othello in the U. S., thinks he will have the chance next fall. Last month he had another reminder of the U. S. Negroes' handicap...
Inside the Court House cowered no blackamoor. Something else had roused the passions of the mob. A law about an insect: phylloxera vastatrix...
...Manhattan, Herman Kaminsky, 12, James Madison, blackamoor, and a small Spitz dog appeared in court...
...loose, the Spitz dog licked the boy's face, the blackamoor's hands. Said the magistrate to Herman Kaminsky: "Take him home...
...GREEN PASTURES?An excellent exhibition of blackamoor theology on earth and as it is in heaven (TIME, March...