Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Sambo's fabulous success, there had followed a whole Bannerman series of Little Black books: Mingo, Bobtail, Quasha and Quibba. Whatever her color, Squibba loves the same things her little black predecessors did, and ends her adventures with a pile of pancakes just like the ones Black Mumbo whipped up for Sambo 67 years...
...Longer Monkeys. Amid all this mumbo jumbo, the real Lumumba has been almost forgotten. He was, of course, a violent, often eloquent anticolonialist, and an infectiously fanatic orator. At the 1960 independence ceremony, he seized the microphone to tell Belgium's King Baudouin that "from today, we are no longer your monkeys." He was also the first Congolese politician to think beyond tribal boundaries, the founder (in 1959) of the Congo's first semi-national political movement, its first real pan-African nationalist-and its first Prime Minister. But at the time of his death, most...
Homecoming. Although Brewster is a Yaleman (class of '41), he is far from a typical Old Blue. As an undergraduate he turned down membership in Yale's elite senior societies, quit a fraternity because of the "mumbo jumbo" of the national chapter. He was chairman of the local America First Com mittee, among a dozen other campus activities, but when war came, lie signed up as a Navy fighter pilot. Instead of returning to Yale, Brewster went through Harvard Law School, became a professor in it, and was talked about as a possible future dean. It was while...
Suspicious of one another's motives, they flash aged but envenomed claws. Dicey accuses the unmarried Mumbo of lesbianism, wonders why Sheikie has no children. Mumbo wonders why Sheikie never made it as a dancer, accuses her of social climbing. Both Mumbo and Sheikie are suspicious of Dicey's relationship to her dusky butler...
...chest proves to be empty. After a bitter, final attempt at finding the little girl buried in Mumbo's hulk, Dicey falls ill. When the Maltese discovers her, she is mysteriously bruised and barely conscious, muttering: "It's all gone, was it ever there? No, never there...