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...stolid Berliner and his wife, sister and daughter, whom Gest bedecked in Moslem costumes, instructed to pray ostentatiously to the East every day on the boat coming over, and covered with fleeting fame by having them rejected at a Broadway hotel where they had tried to register as Abdul Kaffir and wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enchanted Aisles* | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...stolid Berliner and his wife, sister, daughter, masquerading as Abdul Kaffir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Mar. 31, 1924 | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

Ponjola is a picture of the regeneration of an African mining expert. Mainly important because Anna Q. Nilsson cut off her hair to play the "man " - later the woman - who accomplished the regeneration. Ponjola is the Kaffir word for whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 26, 1923 | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spelling and Definition | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...given this evening in Brattle Hall by the Native Choir from Kaffirland, South Africa. The choir appears in native costume and consists of thirteen members, representing seven tribes. Although they have been away from home only four years, they speak English fluently, and sing in English, Dutch-Boer and Kaffir. They have spent three years in England, where they appeared at Osborne, before the queen. Last Tuesday they gave a concert in New Haven, where they were enthusiastically received. The proceeds of the concert will be devoted to charitabe work in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Hall Concert. | 1/9/1894 | See Source »

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