Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull is Spain's chief animal. He is a descendant of the wild bulls that roamed the Iberian peninsula, a closer cousin of the African Cape buffalo than of any domestic cattle. Spanish ganaderías (bull-raising establishments) raise their bulls in a wild state. Carefully bred to bring out all the courage of the strain, the best specimens are rigorously tested, the tame ones weeded out to be butchered. Those raised to fight are never allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones...
Vehement in the minority was Belgian Commission Chairman Albert Janssen. With the Indian and South African members, he advocated on a world scale measures akin to the Goldsborough Bill in the U. S., advised "international action of the gold-standard countries to restore world wholesale commodity prices to the 1928 level...
...shall come back/' said Miss Thompson, straining at her fever-born helplessness as they took her away from her African island. "I shall come back...
Reserved for Ladies (Paramount British) is a witty statement of the social status of a prince of London headwaiters (Leslie Howard) who falls in love incognito with a South African heiress (Elizabeth Allan). He follows her from shop to shop, picking up things she drops; to her hotel (whose dining-room autocrat he is); to the Austrian Tyrol. He is making progress against her sniggers when an incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting...
...bankruptcy. It is all about a good girl who works in a company and who, despite the warnings of her friends, goes to visit her employer, on business of course, in his pent house. It is not a usual pent house at all, for it opens out on an African Zoo which the employer explains away by his passion for the Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that the set was a jungle scene that was shipped by mistake to the wrong lot. The employer proves to be a lecherous old party and real damage is only...