Word: blackamoor
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Deep Harlem. This blackamoor musical comedy suggests in episodes the history of the black race from Cushites to Harlemites. In the syncopated moments of that history there is such brazen, delicious gusto as whites never attain. The humor is racially familiar and pleasing. One disconsolate Negro moans: "I'm the blackest ball on the table." But the company is too naive; needs a tonic of finesse to turn its dusky vigor into fine artistry...
While Daughter Alicia napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle...
Briefly, the Minister of Posts & Telegraphs had been showing himself entirely too considerate of blackamoor trade unions. In vain Big White General Hertzog and his Nationalist Party had threatened, fumed. Mr. Madeley as a member of the Labor Party could not see his way clear to upholding the Nationalist postulate that blackamoors must be "kept in their place," economically, politically. The crisis was precipitated when Minister Madeley received a Negro deputation from the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union, officially, at the Ministry of Posts & Telegraphs. That reception brought General Hertzog's demand for the Minister's resignation...
...pair cavorted, banknotes fluttered after her like autumn leaves. Scandalized, the Casino management detailed two croupiers to follow Spendthrift Josephine Baker, famed blackamoor danseuse, around the ballroom, collecting banknotes which they returned to her when her ebullience had subsided...
...inland. Fifty miles west of Palm Beach lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three...