Word: blackamoor
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...Manhattan, a corpulent blackamoor was apprehended for picking pockets. In court, as soon as the culprit's name was mentioned, the judge recalled him as a citizen with a prior blot on his record, dating back to 1920. (The corpulent culprit's name was Juice Stain...
...Monrovia, Liberia, bound homeward, Captain Lawry shipped another cook, one Codjo, blackamoor, who came over the side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
Even less popular than the silver dollar has been the two-dollar bill. Blackamoor dice-wielders roll their eyes and shake their heads at getting the "unlucky" two-spot; superstition everywhere has fastened forebodings upon it. Probably the prejudice against the two-dollar bill results from the ease with which it may be mistaken for and handed out as a one; at any rate, it is the least liked of all currency denominations...
...which "a diluted Christianity, by essence drab and drear and emasculated, has been made feverish with the emotionalism of experience meetings, revivals and raucous-voiced hymns."- So white priests have, for a half-century, been urged by their bishops to work among the Negroes. Roman Catholics do not urge blackamoors to join their Church. But they do, by exquisite example, show the worth of life within the Faith. And, although the Negro "lot can on earth never be equal with those about them," still Negro boys can become Roman Catholic priests and Negro girls can join their special orders...
...detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating them, when suddenly Margon broke loose from his bride and fled, looking back at one Jose Dueno, who had just entered court. The blackamoor steward, recaptured, was locked up in jail on a charge of bigamy. He had allegedly married, two weeks previously, Mr. Dueno's sister. I was vexed...