Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted them to remember how gallantly Tanga's land forces had defended their little fort in 1914, how they had defeated the British East African Expeditionary Force with heavy losses and made the wounded British lion creep ignominiously away! Banquet guests woke the echoes with Hoch! after Hoch! bellowed tearful choruses of Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles...
...vain have I waited for TIME'S admirable "Cinema" Editor to report and expose Ingagi, Sir Hubert Winstead's African picture with supplied sound effects, which has startled staid Denver by its sensational and supposedly "scientific" shots...
...Gross fakery is apparent from the inclusion as "African" properties, of an armadillo (found only in the Americas), California pepper trees, a turtle with shells and wings glued...
Inventor Otis Barton-Harvard graduate (1922), onetime Paris art student, African big game hunter-last year de-signed and built a diving ball which proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added...
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...