Word: africal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were frequently in company with Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, last week, and landed with them from the Majestic (see above). They were met on the dock in Manhattan by famed Akron (Ohio) Tire Man Harvey Firestone Sr., who told interviewers that Harvey Jr. has just returned from the Afric Republic of Liberia where the Firestones have established rubber plantations which have been partially instrumental in breaking down the British rubber monopoly (TIME...
Briskly, and yet with due reverence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy came unto Jerusalem last fortnight. The pilgrimage was made to top off an East African tour which His Royal Highness has just made through Italian Somaliland. Afric suns have burned him to a deep-toned brown...
...white-haired and quavering old man of 75 whose name is Smith but who has become famous as Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. His arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa, via London, was made the occasion for a humorous publicity campaign by the Publishers of Trader Horn, a biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most of the literati present, was creditably sober...
Last week British airmen zoomed over the Afric Sudan, raining down bombs upon maddened, defenseless, uncomprehending herds of cattle. Boom! Above the basso of the bombs blood spurted fortissimo. Boom! Mangled flesh and splintered bones crescendoed high. BOOM...
Stranger than the Afric prancings of the race of Hot & Tot* are the quaint folk ways of London playgoers wishful of economizing by sitting in the second balcony. Seats of such altitude are not reserved and can only be bought a short time before curtains rise. Therefore hardy balcony patrons gather betimes to form their amazing queues...