Word: africa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago grizzled blackamoor Prince Batoula, 44-year-old scion of a once potent Senegalese dynasty, came to the U. S. His father, Sheik Mamadou. is the "ruling notable" of nearly 2,000,000 Senegalese of French West Africa, although the French Governor General's word in that section of the world is generally considered final. The Prince, Heir Apparent to the "throne," wore flowing blue robes, the green and gold skull cap of the Senegalese sovereigns. He also carried a ram's horn suspended from his neck, ten World War decorations and a fountain pen across...
Miss Harriette Mercer, 26, a strapping, dusky laundress, was presented to His Highness at a Harlem reception. It was love at first sight; and the fact that the Prince had some four wives-the limit under Mohammedan law-back in Africa seemed unimportant. Before the Prince returned to Paris, where he is correspondent for Le Senegal, West African weekly, they were engaged to be married. Said the Princess-to-be last week before she sailed to join her fiance: "Every girl dreams of meeting a Prince and marrying him, and it looks like my dream will come true. . . . I really...
...increase in results. But if missionary zeal is dull at home, Dr. Mott thought that it was keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases and re-establish itself among...
...Proclaimed by scientists "one of the most amazing events in the realm of natural history in the 20th Century" was the discovery off the coast of Africa...
...stockholders are French, 19 of the 32 directors are Frenchmen (ten are British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because Italy spends big money on Suez tolls to maintain communication with Italian East Africa. Lately Italy has been trying to lend weight to its demands with the somewhat irrelevant assertion that not only Ferdinand de Lesseps, but three obscure Italian engineers planned and dug the ditch. Their names: Negrelli, Torelli and Paleocapa...