Word: kaffir
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...already effected; nonetheless, at the close of business, Courtaulds Shares and, by sympathy, the stocks of other artificial silk firms, had soared to new high levels. There was a huge crowd milling and shouting in the alleys of the City; nothing like it had been seen since the Kaffir boom in the nineties...
...awful kaffir curse, loud blank shots, and much booming of Afric drums, marked the opening at a theatre in drowsy, medieval Prague, last week, of a U. S. thrill-drama, The Witch Doctor,* once known to Manhattanites as a poor imitation of White Cargo. After three of the characters had been clumsily and blatantly "killed" on the stage, famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many...
...first day of this book she sends her Kaffir runner with an imperative note to fetch Brand. He takes his wife, and on the longmotor drive out from Lebanon village there is time to recall years that have passed, to puzzle over Mary's trouble, whatever...
...which the wicked and black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain. No notable acting enlivened these proceedings, though the general average...
...starts off stoutly enough with a fearful kaffir curse by which three Englishmen and an American are to die. The British mortality is high by the ending act, but the American, naturally, survives. If they do it in London? which they will not?the three-in-one nationalities must be shuffled...