Word: congo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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African Youth, a sleek, Congo-inspired head of a wide-eyed Negro child (see cut) by Sculptor William Artis, now an Army sergeant...
Other specimens recently acquired by the University come from Mexico, China, Australia, Fiji, Belgian Congo, the Philippines and Borneo, bringing the collection total...
...South, Get Out of Here; Blues for Jimmy) were sold out soon after the release. They were made in Los Angeles with the help of an authentic Dixieland ensemble-including Trumpeter Edward ("Mutt") Carey, who weathered the sweet-arrangement era as a Pullman porter. The recordings, a mixture of Congo barrelhouse and Creole sauce, are probably as close as anything ever put on wax to the spirit of old Storyville, New Orleans' once-gaudy bawdyhouse district...
Mere driblets came from mines in South Dakota and New Mexico. Most of the U.S. supply was flown in from Brazil, with a higher priority (A1) than admirals. Belgian Congo and Australia produced some tantalite ore, but shipping difficulties made it hard to get. Now a new source had been discovered in far northern Canada. The discoverer was a stocky, persevering prospector named Gustrne D. De Steffany...
...Emily Hahn became the University of Wisconsin's first woman graduate in mining engineering. Several years later she began to smoke cigars, wrote a satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient...