Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karroo plateau near Cape Town 36 years ago, Josef Marais began as a child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African informed him that...
...Army announced that it was training a picked shock troop. Called Commandos (Boer for the personnel of military and semimilitary expeditions against natives), this mystery unit was being toughened by long marches on skimpy rations, being taught to read maps, get through barbed wire, navigate vessels, swim in full battle equipment, handle all sorts of weapons and explosives, even master the pressure points of jujitsu...
Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
...fate that ultimately humbled Germany, and certainly Wilhelm's arrogance and indiscretion made him many enemies. He got huffy with his Uncle Bertie (Edward VII of Great Britain) after his father's funeral, and in 1896 enraged all Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, through which Bismarck had protected Germany's rear for adventures in Western Europe, and further alienated Russia by supporting Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. He blocked French seizure of Morocco...
...Trinity River" and "King Castor."Somewhere in his mid-70'S, the Commodore has a rural folklore attached to him that is almost as long as his beloved Trinity valley. According to Gulf Coast legend, he was decorated by the British Government for services during the Boer War, has made and lost two oil fortunes, galloped through a handful of Mexican revolutions and was one of the dupes in the Dr. Cook oil scandal. For the past decade, he has ambled the 500 miles of the Trinity River valley in east Texas preaching agricultural betterment to the families...