Word: negresse
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...Atlanta, Annie Marina, 60-year-old Negress, guilty of drunkenness, admitted she had been drinking a beverage made by dissolving mothballs in gasoline...
Before sailing on the Rochester thin-haired William Allen White, peripatetic Kansas editor (Emporia Gazette), member of President Hoover's commission, took occasion emphatically to deny that he had kissed or embraced a Negress on his arrival fortnight ago, as reported in the U. S. press. His version of the incident: When the Commission landed in Port-au-Prince a huge crowd was waiting on the pier. Prominent in the crowd was a white-haired old lady who fell on her knees before Editor White shrilly crying: "Deliver us! Deliver us!" Gallant Editor White made no promises, but blew...
...every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
...startling words fell, embarrassed white members of the congregation looked from the corners of their eyes at the Negroes. One young Negress hurried out of the church crying into her handkerchief. In another pew an aged Negro bowed his head, did not look up during the rest of the service, then left hurriedly...
...luxe cruise around Africa. She and her maid occupy the royal suite. Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest. She speaks to only one fellow-passenger, a Bostonian, whom she takes suavely for her lover. A gossiping busy-body spots her as a Negress "passing" for white, horrifies a huddle of dowagers with the news...