Word: boer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and British buyers took the best of the Western horses. Three years later the U. S. Government could not find enough first-class saddle horses to equip a single cavalry division (4,000 horses). Previously Western horses had deteriorated through large purchases by the British for the Boer War and because of an admixture of homesteaders' draught horses with the sturdier stock taken West by pioneers. All Western horses contain some of the blood of the wild herds descended from the "Twelve Immortals," the dozen horses taken into Mexico by Cortes. Descendants of the "Twelve Immortals" roamed north...
Miles away Boer farmers heard it and trembled: a noise like a giant crumpling enormous sheets of paper. The noise came from a black cloud 500 miles wide sweeping down from West Africa last week at the rate of 100 miles per day. It was the rustling of billions upon billions of locusts' wings. Whirring swarms dropped down on fields ripe for the autumn harvest, and when they moved on there were no leaves, no grass, no growing things...
...another part of South Africa another kind of food fell from the heavens last week, was greedily gobbled. This food, genuine Biblical manna, descended in a white cloud on a 30-acre field at the farm of Farmer Theunis Botha, cousin of the late great Boer General Louis Botha (1862-1919). Manna, as reported by the careful author of Exodus 16:31 tastes "like wafers made with honey." It is an excretion of the plant louse coccid (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). Its effect upon the eater is mildly cathartic...
...Cavalcade at Drury Lane, in which Playwright Noel Coward takes a champagne-elated heroine (Actress Mary Clare) from the Boer War through the World War and up to Depression in a series of dream and nightmare interludes, rose-tinted, bawdy, poignant, acid. His Majesty, who likes thrills, has been rumored about to knight Nerve-Tweaker Coward...
Although not all of his London hearers would agree with his conclusions, they were amazed at his scientific erudition. They knew him historically as a Boer lawyer who bitterly fought the English subjugation of South Africa in 1900-02, who so made the best of defeat that his home land became a British Dominion and he eventually its Prime Minister and Empire privy councillor. In the World War he generaled a British Army. After the War he suggested the idea of the League of Nations to Woodrow Wilson, helped make the peace treaties. "Slim Janny" and "Happy Warrior" have long...