Word: boer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Jan Christian Smuts, of Dutch descent, acquired fame in the Boer War, and a share of immortality as joint-father of the League of Nations. He, an "Imperialist," in the sense of keeping South Africa in the British Empire, is already at Cape Town where he is leader of the Opposition in the Dominion Legislature...
...object of the visit, which is of great importance, is undoubtedly to rally a large section of the Boer population to a closer loyalty to the Crown and to kill the republican spirit voiced during the past election campaign (TIME, June 16) by Premier Hertzog and his followers. There is a good chance, however, that a term of office has already made the Premier recant, for it was he who re-issued the invitation to the Prince which General Smuts made some years...
Retired. Sir Bertram Fox Hayes, 60, famed White Star Steamship captain. In Sussex, England, he will live ashore with his two sisters, write his memoirs. For 43 years he has commanded great ships. In the Boer War, on his ship, the old Britannic, he carried 37,000 men to Africa. As skipper of the Olympic, converted into a transport during the World War, he carried 30,000 troops and "never lost a soldier." He sank one submarine by gunfire, another by ramming its stern, for which exploits he was knighted. A famed Indian chief who crossed with...
...Warrior. Doyle's first experience with war was on the banks of the Nile, following a health trip to Egypt which involved him in various forms of desert adventure. The Boer War brought him to South Africa as an army surgeon, gave him a good taste of the unpleasanter forms of conflict, including work in a hospital improvised during an enteric epidemic. The town could be smelt rather than seen. The Great War found him roaming about the front-line trenches-French, Australian, Italian. After the Boer War and during the Great War, Doyle devoted a good deal...
...Female. Africa is the setting. A fierce girl supposed to have been nursed by lions, the heroine. A murder of her Boer husband, the climax. A handsome English lion-hunter, the anticlimax. Betty Compson is the female supposed to be so deadly...