Word: sambo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home (TIME, Jan. 4), Ethel Waters, "Rochester," Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Hall Johnson's singers. Like many star-filled pictures, this one never really shows off its crowded heavens. The Negroes are apparently regarded less as artists (despite their very high potential of artistry) than as picturesque, Sambo-style entertainers...
...previous dog of Ambassador Grew's, a black spaniel named Sambo, once drew from His Imperial Majesty Hirohito-one of the few informal remarks an Occidental has ever heard from the Emperor of Japan. One day in 1934 Ambassador Grew took Sambo walking outside Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Sambo skidded and fell 30 feet into the sluggish water of the medieval moat that surrounds the palace walls. Japanese bystanders rescued the dog. The Tokyo press featured the incident. A few days later Ambassador Grew had an audience with the Emperor on matters of state. Like all such audiences...
Gone, they hoped, and gone forever, were the days of political plunder that under the Longs and the Long machine had almost wrecked the State. Longsters had called Sam Houston Jones "High-Hat, Sweet Smelling Sambo." Last week perfume hawkers yelled: "Here y'are-dip in it-wash in it and win. Sam Jones sweet smellin' perfume. Get like sweet smellin' Sam, that Governor man." For the first time in twelve years, Louisiana smelled sweet...