Word: blackamoor
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...done most to promote the welfare of mankind' in my particular field. Upon accepting the medal, I made a speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted...
...called Great Hegira. No harm ensuing, he followed later in holy triumph on his long-lived she-camel, Al-Kaswa, whom he permitted to choose the site of his new abode, a good browsing spot on the Medina town green. Up went the mosque on that spot. Bilal, a blackamoor, was first muezzin. Medina prayed seven times daily and reported for church on Fridays...
...Subscriber Smith consult his Webster's Unabridged. "Infuscate" means "darkened with a brownish tinge"; was employed as a synonym for "nigger," "Negro," "blackamoor"; has no reference to intoxication...
High in Montmartre, one Frisco le Nègre presides as the epitome of sinewy darkness over white folks' revels. His wide infectious smile brims with the elements of primeval mirth. Last week he welcomed many a world-famous guest to Mitchell's, a noted Parisian variant of the blackamoor nightclubs of Harlem, New York City...
...lurcher-revealed by a street light as a big blackamoor in a stiff shirt (badly smutted) and a dented plug-hat-beamed amiably and continued his uncertain gambol up the empty street...