Word: afric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well pleased Toto ya Georgia continued his Afric tour (TIME, Sept...
...life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial to her late husband, Afric explorer Carl Akeley. The memorial is a stoutly fenced and protected park with a massive gateway above which swings a sign: The Gorilla Sanctuary...
...peculiar and perturbing crisis developed in South Africa, last week, a few days prior to the arrival of Edward of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester, to begin their famed Afric hunting tour (TIME, Sept...
...General Umberto Mobile's little yapping terrier bitch is Titina. *James A. G. Davey (Tree Surgery) said, upon reaching Manhattan last week after a tour across Africa, "I will never again make that trip without firearms, and I strongly advise against any one else doing so." An Afric native, it appeared, had frightened Mr. & Mrs. Davey by rising up out of tall elephant grass and hurling at their motor car a spear. *George V is Emperor of India alone and King of the remainder of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...different is the view of rhinocero-phobes (including most Afric blacks and many a white non-sportsman). They hold that the "noble game" is now so numerous as to seriously menace Afric agriculture, in certain districts, by persistently trampling down crops...