Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divorces in the U.S. last year.) The Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official gazette of the Vatican, duly reports the facts of cases before the Rota. They run about 50-50, rich and poor. So much for that. If the cases of nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor, that is because selling into marriage is more common among the wealthy than the poor. Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon another word. A very simple and not uncommon case for some reason or other was exaggerated beyond...
Humanitarians have often rebuked the U. S. for its lack of encouragement to the Free and Independent Republic of Liberia, constituted in 1847 on the West coast of Africa, especially to make provision for freed U. S. slaves. The President of Liberia is of American descent. The Constitution, Legislation, Executive and Judicature of Liberia almost duplicate the U. S. pattern. Two million Negroes dwell there upon an area as large as Pennsylvania...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
Paradoxically Barney Barnato, who feared neither man nor the wild beasts of Africa, was bedeviled by two maladies: 1) a fantastic psychic dread that he might lose his millions and have to peddle in the streets again; 2) an incurable eczema which prickled him unbearably in warm weather. One day, as he was journeying from Africa to England, he leaped from the ship, drowned...
...known in his time as one of the most brilliant of Oxford undergraduates, and who thereafter served through the war, is able to produce with almost unfailing regularity a handsome and convincing tale of the high adventure. On the other hand, remembering that he spent considerable time in South Africa after taking his degree, and travelled over Europe as a special corespondent and possesses an abiding love for the Scotch moors, his flare for the romantic is not so astonishing...