Word: blackamoor
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DISRAELI-George Arliss makes this drama of the Prime Minister who loved peacocks, gardening and Queen Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH-blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND-phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) -the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE-elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea...
...President Hoover last week first exercised executive clemency. In 1927, George Herbert Thompson, Washington Blackamoor, murdered his sweetheart. Five days before he was to step into the electric chair, President Hoover commuted his sentence to life imprisonment...
...would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until, in 1907, she got a vaudeville contract at $12.50 a week. One day when she was in burlesque her trunk didn't come and she had to sing without her blackamoor makeup. Her comedy went over better...
Neglecting to use a blanket, rash Rancher Jaerl Nafte and his foreman proceeded to kiboko a black named Sixpence Temba who, they said, had insulted a white woman. Spreadeagling the horrified blackamoor on a wagon wheel, they lashed him until their arms were tired. Later they suspended him by one toe from a tree and went on with the kibokoing though he screamed that they were killing him. When tired again, they left him and went off to a picnic. Sixpence, as he had prophesied, died...
...gentlemen in South Africa were incensed when Jaerl Nafte was convicted of manslaughtering Sixpence and sentenced not only to seven years' imprisonment but to receive ten lashes at the whipping post. Never before had a white man been sentenced to be kibokoed in South Africa for kibokoing a blackamoor. Irate Protestant editors called Catholic Judge Saul Solomon, K. C, who imposed the sentence, "negrophilist...