Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ethnological history of Puerto Rico is identical with that of any of our Southern States, including my own State of Texas: invasion and settlement by Europeans?and Spain sent her best blood to the New World; practical extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants; importation of African slaves for agricultural labor; subsequent liberation of these slaves and the gradual appearance of more or less mixed blood. The only difference I see in Puerto Rico is that, since the process has on the whole been going on for a couple of hundred years more than in the continental U. S., the proportion...
...African jungle to Cairo, on a bed, in an airplane, flew Mrs. Martin Johnson, ill after 20 months spent filming big game...
...acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon me with a petition asking me to retract the state ments I had made with regard to their native city. . . ." It did not take him long to learn to refer to "The War Between the States...
...clerks in its entirely legal offices at Stuart House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Douglas Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming to the U. S. to buy up Irish Hospital tickets, leaving his associates to handle the domestic business which this year gave...
...Robert E. Lee's slave body servant, Charlie Lee was engaged by President Roosevelt in 1902, served him until his death as personal bodyguard, has since been Mrs. Roosevelt's chauffeur. In Lee's home on Sagamore Hill hangs the most famed of Roosevelt's African hunting trophies, the original Big Stick...