Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must rest on the elimination . . . of reason for friction between the two countries." In the past such friction has been chiefly fomented by journalists on French and Italian soil. There remain, however, certain definite clashes of interest-such as those between the French and Italian spheres in North Africa...
...joined the Foreign Legion, and I had to tell him that I didn't for the life of me know. He said I must have been crazy." At London correspondents discovered, last week, one Thomas William Whitman, an Englishman who had just arrived from Africa after successfully deserting from the French Foreign Legion. "We were punished by Legion officers," he said "for slight mistakes with lashes from huge rawhide whips...
March 25 "Health Conditions in Equatorial Africa Contrasted with Those in Countries were Sanitation Prevails". Dr. R. P. Strong...
Five years ago Marcus Garvey, orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
They sat through what is certainly one of the most expensive preparations ever put up, a luxurious operetta about Africa. Dawn, high priestess of native religion, loves an heroic Englishman. Unhappily she is in the power of a gigantic local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed...