Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brood, complete with nurses, to the Dolomites where Bachelor Martin was wooing a suave and lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa; she and her brood, un-championed, lapse into their hectic scattered existence at smart European hotels, in the feverish wake of this parent or that...
Such fate was nevertheless preferable to the treatment the blacks would have suffered as convicts or prisoners-of-war in Africa. Prisoners were put to slow torture and mutilation at the hands of the captor and his wives, vicious harpies who neatly carved out eyes, skinned off lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king...
...subjective passion, the pathos of the lone individual. ... Self-help alone appeals to him as being both sensible and justified. ... The impartial judge who in cold blood sentences to death ... must in the eyes of the Spaniard rank lower than the murderer. ... Spain belongs not to Europe but to Africa...
...that John Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals...
...Andrews came to two important conclusions: 1) That titanotheres, large horned quadrupeds which became extinct in America in the early Oligocene period (geologically fairly recent), lasted for a much longer period in Mongolia; 2) That mastodons were, in the same period, en their way from Africa to Western Europe, Siberia and North America...