Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales and his brother, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, were greeted in Kenya, East Africa, last week by naked painted savages who welcomed the royal "goodwill" visitors with brandishing of spears, and ululation. Other natives donned "store clothes" and sang "God Save the King" impressively but nearly unrecognizably...
Died. Charles Grey, brother & heir to the baronetcy of Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon; from injuries inflicted by a buffalo; in Tanganyika, East Africa. George Grey, another brother of the Viscount, was killed by an African lion...
...Little old Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, who had sworn the last five Presidents, administered the oath. Then came the historic Inaugural Ball in the cavernous Pension Building. Roosevelt slipped out a side door of the White House and soon was tracking and slaying wild animals in an Africa not yet crowded by tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they were vexed. Their clamor pained and confused...
Sons-in-law are incessantly reported vexed about their mothers-in-law. But rarely are they reported trying to poison them. Even in Abyssinia, small country in the northeast of Africa, where it is easy to poison people because they take so much red pepper at dinner that they can taste nothing else, sons-in-law have rarely been reported trying to poison their mothers-in-law. But last fortnight, an Abyssinian actually was accused of wanting to poison his Abyssinian mother-in-law. Further, he was accused of having succeeded...
...temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...