Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subheading "Ooze," writing of the Congo valley, you say "lions, tigers, etc." Kindly inform me if the species of tiger inhabiting the Congo valley is in any way related to the blind-tigers which infest all valleys in America? Query: Are there any tigers to be found in Africa, outside of zoological gardens and menageries...
Small tigers (not blind) abound in the dry uplands of the Belgian Congo, Africa. But perhaps Representative Murphy has in mind the largest species of tiger, the felis tigris, which is indigenous to Asia. Subscriber Murphy would be meticulously correct if he should state that the felis tigris is to be found in Africa only behind zoo bars...
...speaker who could not be arrested preached flat disloyalty to George V and mere lip loyalty to the British Crown before a huge audience at Harrismith in the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion. "We don't accept the King of England," he roared, "but only his Crown...
Strangely enough this astoundingly incautious orator was not a "Red." He is simply a grizzled South African statesman of Dutch stock who has risen to the highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably...
...crossed the Channel for the occasion, but, though he was welcomed cordially, louder Belgian cheers rang out for Charles of Flanders. Even Britons were glad that this keen, upstanding Prince had been pushed to the fore by the fact that King Albert and Queen Elizabeth are now returning from Africa, after touring the Belgian Congo (TIME...