Word: negroid
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...chocolaty skin, soft negroid eyes, feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...
...music can be either good or bad," he went on, "we try to play what we feel, and that of course makes it negroid." Ellington said that he was trying to establish an "unadulterated negro music...
...name "Jim Crow," meaning anything Negroid, was spawned by that awkwardly worded but catchy little song hit a hundred-odd years ago; today he stands for the segregation of white and colored races. To the Southern Negro, Jim Crow has meant, among other things, outmoded railway coaches, the rear rows of seats on trolleys and busses...
...constructive side, it was reported from Berlin that Führer Hitler had agreed to delete from Mein Kampf certain uncomplimentary references in which France was described as a "bastardized, negroid" country, an "eternal danger to the white race of Europe." an "enemy-to-the-death of the German people." There were also suggestions that France in turn might tone down the inscriptions on some World War monuments which bitterly refer to the "ravages of Huns...
...Jewish children remaining in Nazi schools are used as object lessons. A teacher calls a little Jewish girl to the front of a class, asks other pupils: "What do you see in this face?" They answer obediently: "A gigantic nose, Negroid lips, inferior frizzy hair." The teacher adds: "You see, besides, a cowardly and disloyal facial expression...