Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago (TIME, March 21), Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the presidential collection of raccoon, collies, bees, owl, etc., rolled his large eyes, blew on his large hands when told that two lion cubs were coming to the White House, gifts of the Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, brought by one C. B. Deitz, Omaha coalman. Last week the cubs (Joe & Hannah) arrived, aged ten months; size, larger than airedales. Smaller, non-carnivorous, personal gift to Mrs. Coolidge, a duikerbok* came with them...
Unmelted Africa...
...SOUTH AFRICANS?Sarah Gertrude Millin?Boni & Liveright ($3.50). South Africa and its little muttering wars, the noise of the mines under the hot sun, the songs that the Dutch vintners sing and the old curses that black men shout in the alleys of Johannes-burg?for most people these are far away. They are heard only as a confused murmur, a distant and broken music...
...deepest mines in the world are in Brazil, South Africa, South India, and Yorkshire, England. The deepest, a gold mine named "Village Deep", and situated in South Africa, in the Penne District, is 7032 feet below the level of the ground. This and many others will be visited by Professor Graton during his year of sojourn. He will visit every mine in the world that is over one mile deep...
...Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman in order to save her husband arraigned on a murder charge. As usual, the husband fails to understand such exquisite betrayal. He dons a romantic white helmet, sets out for South Africa, becomes involved with diamonds, Negroes, wild beasts. Believing him dead, his wife also visits South Africa. When such melodramas are presented in college towns, the boys throw peanuts at the screen...