Word: blackamoor
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...device of having Bank-robber Hanson (Craig Reynolds; and associates take refuge in the barn which is G-man headquarters, may smack of the coincidental; as fantasy, it blends properly with the hayloft fantasies of the Penrod age. Helped by the local constabulary, the kids round up the yeggs. Blackamoor Verman finds a new home, Penrod's dad makes peace with Banker Bitts. Billy Mauch is the boy who played the young Anthony Adverse. He has an equally talented twin, Bobby Mauch, whose mother, according to Hollywood legend, cannot tell them apart. The Mauches will play the dual leads...
Richest and most inexplicable cultist in the U. S. is Major J. ("Father") Divine, "God" to many a blackamoor and moody white in New York's Harlem and elsewhere. Slick little Father Divine lives well, maintains a Rolls-Royce, flies about in an airplane, provides abundant low-price meals to his followers. But he keeps no books, has never paid an income tax. Leaving it to his followers to assert blandly, that he "manifests" money out of nothing, the black "God" has seemed to take poker-faced delight in evading questions about his income. Since he has a good...
...Delano Roosevelt, who gave it nearly $5,000,000 in PWA grants for buildings and turned up last October to dedicate its new chemistry building; Eleanor Roosevelt, who has dropped in at Howard faculty meetings. Last week Howard's friends were shocked to hear that its 1,950 blackamoor students were to a man out on strike...
...rooms were small, the construction poor. To meet maintenance and amortization charges the rents were finally set at $11.50 to $17.50 per month per room. Consequence was that Dunbar residents came primarily from the higher income brackets, which led to charges that the management was discriminating in favor of blackamoor socialites. Nor were feelings improved by the management of Roscoe Conkling Bruce, a scholarly Negro Harvardman whose previous training had been gained in Washington as assistant superintendent of public schools...
...Currie, who had just received his new Sizzle Pants and thought he was making a good impression. When the girl disappeared, Red blamed Spike for it, got into a fight, shot him dead. Thereupon, by a chain of illogical events Spike's friends lynched the luckless blackamoor Spike had beaten earlier in the evening. Mail-order catalogs had been burned in the flame of local patriotism, but next morning new ones were ordered, and the hot, bitter, hungry life of Conchartee was back to normal...