Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trader Horn company sailed for Africa with only two other women in the party, the wife of Harry Carey (Trader Horn) and a script girl. Because the blonde goddess of African natives had to be tanned, ambitious Miss Booth sunbathed herself naked on the deck while the ship sailed down the blazing Red Sea to Mombasa on the African East Coast. To protect themselves from sunstroke Director Van Dyke and others of the company wore red underwear...
Britain also realized last week that she may not be able to enforce anti-Japanese quotas for some of her East African possessions because of the Congo Basin treaties which assure commercial equality in the Congo Basin to the signatory powers. Tanganyika Territory in East Africa, excluded because it is a British mandate, was glad. Reporters found an overworked doctor in Tanganyika who announced...
...Author. Percy Molesworth Sykes was bom 67 years ago, played racquets and ran a fast mile at Rugby and Sandhurst. He was gazetted in the 16th Lancers, was almost constantly in Persia and Baluchistan for 26 years after 1893 but went to the South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other...
...that distinction. An M. P. seemed a small prize to the fat little Jamaican who swept into Manhattan's Harlem during the War, proposed to ferry the whole Negro population of the U. S. back to Africa, plumped for a Black Christ, made himself Provisional President of the African Republic, Imperial Potentate of the Valley of the Nile, Emperor Marcus I of Ethiopia, Admiral of the Black Star Line, President General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Commander of the Nobles of the Sublime Order of the Nile and Knight of the Distinguished Service Order of Ethiopia...
...exhibition of African and Oceanic Art which the Fogg Museum presents through the cooperation of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, brings an artistic experience far deeper than the mere sight of the exotic by-products of savagery. It presents a manifestation of art which can materially richen our appreciation of all forms of art and our understanding of the varieties of human adaptation to the physical and spiritual problems of existence...