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Word: congo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realism bores Parisians, German realism irritates them, Belgian Congo superrealism shocks them. Hanging in the private Gallerie Sur Realist on Mont Parnasse last week was a painting by a Congo Negro of a Congo Negro in a peculiar posture, nude except for a string of beads and a rope of silver ornaments. Parisian women, profoundly shocked, demanded that the unsightly painting be removed. Police investigated, ousted it from the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Posture | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Strong '16 of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Allen is the only member of the expedition which left last May, who has yet returned. The other members of the party are making their way across the continent to the East Coast. When last heard from they were in the Congo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LESS DANGER IN LIBERIA THAN HARVARD SQUARE" | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

Admirers of Joseph Conrad will be interested to note that two of his diaries containing a description of a journey in Congo have been put on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The diaries contain not only accounts of the journey, but also maps, profile sections, and travelling directions. An early and much interlined draft of "Lord Jim" is also being exhibited. This draft is scribbled in a commonplace blank book which contains a few extracts in Polish, possibly in his mother's hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONRAD DIARIES EXHIBITED IN WIDENER TREASURE ROOM | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

...Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, sculptor, hunter, taxidermist, engineer. It found him where he had often been before, in the heart of Africa. Weakened by fever and a nervous breakdown some months ago, he died last week of hemorrhage attendant upon pneumonia at Kabele on Mt. Mikeno, Uganda, Belgian Congo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Akeley | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Died. Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, explorer, naturalist, sculptor; in the Belgian Congo, of hemorrhage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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