Word: safari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elephants for a Fee. It was by hunting that Pretorius made his living and his legendary reputation. His lifetime bag for elephants alone was 557; and after one six-month safari his take for ivory was worth ?3,600. Once when hundreds of rogue elephants ran wild in Cape Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush...
...remote mountains of Southwest Africa is another rock painting (discovered by Germans in 1917) which the abbé visited by long-distance desert safari. The central figure is that of a woman with clothes on (not a Bushman custom). Her features are European, the abbé decided, and her costume resembles that of the lady bullfighters of ancient Crete, home of the Minotaur. How she got to Southwest Africa the abbé does not know, but he thinks the painting must be at least 4,000 years...
Brown Girl to Mother Kirk. Lewis has provided a lively and dramatic account of his spiritual safari "from popular realism to Philosophical Idealism; from Idealism to Pantheism; from Pantheism to Theism and from Theism to Christianity." In his first-and not initially successful-fantasy, The Pilgrim's Regress, he used Bunyan's device of a naive wayfarer beset by symbolic men and monsters...
...tumult and the shouting had died, and, after his cross-country political safari, Henry Wallace was resting at his son's home in Des Moines. He could afford to rest. His swing through the West had surprised a lot of people, but few could have been more surprised than Henry Wallace. Almost everywhere he had packed the crowds in: 3,000 in Cleveland, 6,000 in Minneapolis, 8,000 in Detroit, a record 25,000 in Los Angeles' Gilmore Stadium. The people who came paid good prices to hear him: from 60? to $2.40 apiece in Chicago...
...hunt on a nearby island in the Mississippi. He knew that there were lions on the island, because he had bought two from a circus and turned them loose there. A fearless Star-Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their cages...