Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civilized countries where women do not have the right to vote: Belgium, Spain, Italy, Jugoslavia, Japan Women's suffrage exists in only 28 states: Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, British East Africa, Rhodesia, Jamaica, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Rumania, Serbia, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States, Poland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine...
Hold That Lion (Douglas MacLean). Ignorant of the fact that in South Africa "cat" means "lion," Douglas MacLean sets out to get a pussy for his sweetheart. As if this were not embarrassment enough for one motion picture comedy, he loses his trousers at a most aristocratic function the very same evening. It is all for the best, however, and funny...
Recently Abyssinia, last native state in Africa to survive undominated by one or more of the Great Powers, protested to the League Secretariat (TIME, Aug. 9, ABYSSINIA) that Great Britain and Italy have concluded a mutual agreement for exploiting certain Abyssinian territories in defiance of the Empress Zauditu of Abyssinia...
...Oliver said: "It is not altogether a secret that his distinguished family chaffed him and suggested that he might make a mess of it. We all agree that he did not make a mess of it." The British Association then voted to hold its 1929 Congress in South Africa...
...afield, natural-historical collectors last week reported captures. From East Africa, Dr. William M. Mann in command of the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition to restock the National Zoo at Washington (TIME, Mar. 8), wrote that he had in custody a dik-dik-pigmy antelope, standing but 15 inches high. Also, a pigmy mouse-bumble-bee size. From Brazil, George K. Cherrie in command of the Field Museum's expedition (which includes Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton-TIME, July 5) announced that a wolf-spider had been taken, so enormous that it could capture and devour small birds...