Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million on their way from South Africa last week to relieve the monotony of the British diet. They were filled with snoek (rhymes with cook). "I've never met a snoek face to face," said Food Minister John Strachey, announcing the purchase, "so I can't tell you much about it except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek...
Tyrone Power, hopping around Africa spreading good will for Hollywood, got nice accommodations in Addis Ababa. His host: Haile Selassie...
When the New York Herald's Henry Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone in darkest Africa, the Herald scored an exciting scoop.* Last week the Herald Tribune front-paged the results of another notable foray into dark territory: the report of a four-man team of Trib correspondents, on ten weeks behind the "Iron Curtain...
...province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
Fine Feathers. The expedition had a Gilbert & Sullivan air about it, as Author Manning tells it. Emin Pasha, the object of the hunt, was an eccentric German doctor whose real name was Eduard Schnitzer. Though he had fled to the almost inaccessible interior of Equatorial Africa, he was afraid somebody would try to "rescue...