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...Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland. Years later they were absorbed again by the spreading sponge of British rule which made them not-too-loyal citizens of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...
Died. Sir Charles Edmond Knox, 92, British lieutenant general who in the Boer War chased elusive Boer General Christian Rudolph De Wet 800 miles but never caught him; of old age; in Putney, England...
...Netherlands, which kept out of war with Great Britain during the Boer War (Netherlanders expressed sympathy for the Boers) and stayed neutral in the World War, the prime issue today is peace. Although The Netherlands is sandwiched against aggressive Germany, and Japan is looking hungrily at the potent Netherlands Indies, Her Majesty radiorated confidently: "The peoples of the world are still suffering the consequences of the World War, but I feel convinced that all dispute and trouble can be settled with good will and united effort." But shrewd Queen Wilhelmina, with a good share of her $5,000,000 annual...
...riotous flow of incident. We're Going to be Rich, however, is made really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
...work in metal, wood and glass. In an apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...