Word: boer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Deneys Reitz, onetime enemy of Britain during the Boer War, arrived in England last week as South Africa's new High Commissioner. It was a great joke in Britain when, full of friendship and good will, he breezed into a London hotel and told the waiter: "I am an easy man to please; just bring me some bacon and two eggs." Most Britons have not seen two eggs together for many months...
...night fire broke out in a Manhattan building, drove out the residents next door. The refugees: wealthy Jules Brula-tour & wife, glitteringly blonde ex-Star Hope Hampton. Their refuge: the neighboring home of veteran Humorist Arthur ("Bugs") Boer...
...years shrill-voiced Hertzog had been fighting Smuts and the British Empire. Hertzog carried a Bible and a bandoleer into the Boer War, bravely and cleverly fought the British-as did Smuts. But the Hertzog enmity continued. He voted against the peace at Vereeniging in 1902, devoted the succeeding years to law and his own brand of reform. In the mining camps, the veld farmhouses and the dorps (country towns), he harangued against horse racing, gambling, nightclubs, novels and the British. He advocated no votes, no beer, no property for Negroes. In the army he introduced horsewhipping and quick execution...
Died. Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, 74, veteran war correspondent, first U.S. political adviser to the Chinese Republic; in Seattle. He covered the Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, World War I, the Boxer Rebellion, and part of the Sino-Japanese war, helped found The China Press, first U.S. paper in Shanghai, and Millard's Weekly Review in Shanghai. More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from...
...their own sake. This is no conflict of armies. It is a battle of the birth rate!" The British press has noted that Britain now has a million and a half fewer babies and a million and a half more pet dogs than at the time of the Boer...