Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Scribner, 75, board chairman of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan, publishers and booksellers, founder ot Scribner's Magazine; of heart disease; in Manhattan. His most famed publishing contract: $1 per word to Theodore Roosevelt for serial rights to African Game Trails...
...AFRICAN DRUMS-Fred Puleston; illustrated by André Durenceau-Farrar & Rinehart...
...plot of approximately 600 sq. ft., Miss Constable's breathtaking Yellow Garden which won the large silver cup presented by the Royal Horticultural Society. Pale ferns, towering yellow acacias and mimosas hung over a narrow path, accented with deep orange clumps of a kind of South African flowering pineapple, professionally known as imantophyllum, more popularly Clivia...
LoBAGOLA, AN AFRICAN SAVAGE...
...time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit us to use only our teeth and fingernails for the observance." LoBagola's people...