Word: blackamoor
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President Coolidge pressed a button in the White House. No secretary or stenographer entered; no uniformed blackamoor thrust his head around a screen, but far away in Chicago a gong rang; the lights in the huge amphitheatre of the Chicago Riding Club flashed on; a fine brass band assisted by a $50,000 organ struck up successively the national anthems of Belgium, France, England, the U. S., while a mighty shout arose from the crowd. National Horse Show had begun...
...blackamoor, dumbfounded, explained how Jones was Robert Tyre Jones Jr., National Amateur Golf Champion, how Watts was Watts Gunn, his friend and opponent in the finals, and how, since both lived in Atlanta, Mayor Sims had issued a proclamation asking all the city to help in their welcome; the city councilmen had passed them a vote of gratitude; and the citizens arranged in their honor the celebration he had just witnessed. "Is there anything else, sir?" inquired the porter when he had made this clear. "Overcome with gratitude," murmured the salesman absently, "I can only thank...
...Manhattan, Henry Heift, blackamoor, was arraigned for vagrancy. "What have you to say?" asked the judge. "I am the Chief Regent of the New Argentine Imperial," said Heift. "I am about to organize an expedition to travel into the solar system." He produced a copy of The Solar Path, prospectus written by himself. "With each copy of this I give away a bond redeemable for $20 in 1960. ... At a height of about 800 miles from here, there is a solid land, a new earth. There we will find riches and precious stones in abundance and we intend to claim...