Word: negroid
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...Congress. In Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson directed the selection of one of his Negro ward bosses, a large, greying "race man" of somewhat Thompsonian demeanor, to succeed the late Martin Barnaby Madden as the Republican nominee for U. S. Representative from Chicago's largely Negroid First District...
Next morning there arrived inopportunely at Vienna famed U. S. negroid danseuse Josephine Baker-in figure like a long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours...
...inhabitants, through deep brown in the central part of the Kingdom to chocolate tints and true black in the farthest south. Ras Taffari, prince regent, is a black southerner but of the special superior blackness of the province of Shoa. Slim, short, wiry, Prince Ras Taffari considers himself super-Negroid...
...Kenya Colony, Digger L. S. Leakey reported finding the skeleton of a six-foot cave man of non-negroid characteristics, surrounded by mesolithic flints...
...Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms frankly and disarmingly Negroid, understands the art of "living" her songs, so that they take on dramatic quality. In Harlem, she is queen. In Manhattan she stopped the show. The other feature is the chorus of many-tinted Negro girls, most of them well-made, whose hips keep up with vagarious jazz rhythms...