Word: boers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...
...veteran of both the Boer War and the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign of the World War, in the latter of which he was twice wounded. He was Chairman of the Labor Party in 1921, and Commander of the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve in 1924. Since then he has served as Chancellor for Lancaster in the cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald...
...been sent to Cape Colony to seek a solution of the grave difficulties with the Boer republics. Yet in speech he showed himself an Imperialist and did not mend matters by referring to the South African British as "helots." He foresaw war with the Boers, undoubtedly hastened its advent, which he believed inevitable. He stayed in South Africa throughout the South African War (1899-1902), was rewarded for his services by a viscounty and the Governorship of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony...
...toast to the Prince's health and prosperity was drunk and followed by Boer and British cheers, and the singing of God Save the Prince of Wales...
...Prince stood up. Complete silence. Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer "rebels" let out one roar : Ous Prins! (Our Prince) and secession of South Africa from the British Commonwealth lay, apparently shattered, on the floor. Cheers, table banging, clapping, Boer and British songs finally over, the Prince continued, still speaking Dutch...