Word: eminence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecture tour 16 years later, when the chance came for another African "rescue." Emin Pasha, the German-born Governor of the Equatorial province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
Fine Feathers. The expedition had a Gilbert & Sullivan air about it, as Author Manning tells it. Emin Pasha, the object of the hunt, was an eccentric German doctor whose real name was Eduard Schnitzer. Though he had fled to the almost inaccessible interior of Equatorial Africa, he was afraid somebody would try to "rescue...
...cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted. Stanley led the expedition by sounding a piercing whistle, "a kind of marine foghorn with a huge gong." While Stanley's steamer chugged up the Congo, Emin made preparations to receive his visitors. By his calculations, they would arrive...
...months after the expedition entered the forest, a depleted band of tattered, hungry men reached the lake at which Emin was to meet them. Emin had received word from natives of Stanley's coming. But Stanley arrived a day earlier than Emin had planned on; disgruntled at not finding the Pasha there, he retired to his camp "to read his Bible. He had read it through once in the forest and was back again at Deuteronomy." Emin showed up next day, found no one, and went back to his station in the hills. After resting for a while...
From Turkey: Ahmed Emin Yalman, editor of Istanbul's newspaper Vatan (Fatherland), is a small, mild-mannered man with an immense capacity for daring independence. He finished his education in the U.S. (three years at Columbia University), then started his paper in 1923, after helping to bring gusty Kamal Atatürk to power. In 1925 Atatürk suspended Ahmed Emin's paper for ten years because he had criticized Government policies. In 1935 Ahmed Emin took up where he had left off. During the war, Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly...