Word: negroid
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...Negroid cabaret in Harlem-of one sitting comfortably back in a downy, plushy divan. He seems so happy...
...Advancement of Colored People) announced in print that ragtime had musical possibilities. He further observed that the original ragtime tunes were Negro folk songs set down by composers, a statement supported by the fact that all the first popular songs in this tempo treated Negro subjects in negroid English...
...Story. A mighty man, this Richard Hogarth, farmer, with brown skin, round brow, moles on his cheek, lips "negroid in their thick pout," eyes brown, bloodshot, "imperially large...
...essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings, all the negroid music of the contemporary theatre and dance hall...
...ghostly negroid smell...