Word: roans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father...
Last week 8,000 people crowded Hillsdale's fair grounds to see Contractor John Adrian's record-holders, Flaxie & Dan, brought from Williamsville. N. Y.. defend their laurels against their old rivals, George H. Statler's Ohio team of roan and sorrel Belgians, weighing 4,700 Ib. For five years one or the other of these teams has always held the world's record. Once they broke it three times in one day and they have dragged it up to unbelievable heights...
...very ordinary nightmare to the sweating Bantu natives who work it for as little as fourpence a day, under 1,200 white men and a blistering sun. Roan Antelope is a comparatively small source of profit to the territorial Government of Northern Rhodesia. The Government, getting most of its revenue from income tax, native taxes, customs stamps and licenses, is actually poor. For that reason Northern Rhodesia's executive council lately raised the native poll tax from 10 to 15 shillings. For black Roan workmen, who cannot quit during their contract term, that was the last straw. Last week...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
...soon developed that the blackamoors had a highly unsavage awareness of what they wanted, a dangerously efficient organization. Because of the poll tax increase, they wanted more pay. Their anger was against the poor Government, not against rich Roan. Last week the black mob swarmed into Roan Antelope's mine compound at Luanshya, wrecked it, turned to the company offices, demolished them, swarmed toward the power house. The white police advanced. An officer gave the command to fire. The corpses of six kinky-polled blacks were left behind in the dust after their fellows had stampeded away. When...