Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Large island off the southeast coast of Africa, a French colony...
...State Department in British East Africa got Britain's permission for an expedition to enter the Tanganyika region. Dr. Mann assembled a large corps of able field naturalists, including Albert J. Loveridge of the Harvard zoology staff, who was for eight years an assistant game warden of the Tanganyika territory. Mechanics at the National Zoo built scores of collapsible crates. Keeper Frank Lowe of the Zoo was bidden along to care for animals captured. It was planned to push inland from Dar-es-Salaam, establish a base camp near the railroad and stay five or six months...
...child was born into an English family. She was christened Vera, and in due course of years she married and became the Countess Cathcart. The action of the story now comes to a time about five years ago. The Countess, leaving her wedded husband, took a journey to South Africa with the Earl of Craven. In due course Earl Cathcart divorced the Countess, naming the Earl of Craven as corespondent. There was, however, no "ever after" clause in the elopers' contract, and after a time the Earl of Craven returned to his wife and was reconciled with...
...Story. Down on the lobe of the great elephant's ear that is Africa lives Mary Adams Glenn, in a farmhouse on the lonely veld below blue mountains. The farm belongs to Brand van Aardt, the slow, dependable lover of her girlhood. She lives there virtually on his charity with the amiable mediocrity whom she married instead of Brand. They have a ten-year-old boy, Jackie, and she is soon to bear again...
...Author. Sarah Gertrude Millin has always lived in South Africa. She is the Jewish wife of a Johannesburg barrister. She writes for South African papers, including the Cape Times, whose literary column is by her; also for John Middleton Hurry's very earnest and intelligent Adelphi, in London. The Jordans was her first widely read work. Last year, God's Stepchildren, a study in miscegenation worked out like an inexorable chapter from the Old Testament, was very highly praised. Sequel...