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...Anderson, S. C., Coroner J. M. Clark was asked to hold an inquest to determine what had caused the sudden demise of a blackamoor found dead after a dinner of nine cans of sardines, a bottle of buttermilk, two boxes of crackers and a plate of spareribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sneezer's Chance | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Richmond, Va., Blackamoor Winnie Jones was cooking dinner in her kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Galoshes | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Down the block, Blackamoor James Brice was sawing wood with a buzzsaw. The flywheel of James Brice's buzz-saw flew off, sailed over a church, crashed through the roof of a house, decapitated Winnie Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Galoshes | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Booker Taliaferro Washington Jr., son of the late great blackamoor educator, was sued by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Hancock Washington, in a cross-complaint against his divorce action, in Los Angeles. She objected to his boasting of his father, taking credit for many of the virtues of the deceased. Each accused the other of infidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...quiet dinner chez Thomas William Lamont last week appropriately closed the brief U. S. visit of the most famed living native-born South African. No blackamoor is General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts. Indeed he roused the ire of U. S. blackamoors by alluding to their African ancestors and relatives as "the most patient of all animals" (TIME, Jan. 20). But Europeans will not be angry at what Africa's slim* Smuts said of Europe last week, just before he sailed on the Ile de France. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Nobody Expected It! | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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