Word: milliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CECIL RHODES-Sarah Gertrude Millin -Harper ($3.75) When a friend asked Cecil John Rhodes how long he expected to be remembered, he replied, "I give myself 4,000 years." Thirty-one of his self-allotted years have gone, and Rhodes is already a colossus-like myth. Authoress Millin's biography restores some of the edges to his human outline; she leaves his image something more than lifesize, but strips the marble pediment and shows clay feet...
...against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes, head of a neighboring and nominally friendly state, was almost universally discredited. Though he lived to within a few months of the end of the ensuing Boer War, Authoress Millin says Rhodes had no finger in its bringing about, never believed it could actually happen...