Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with the delicate diplomatic questions raised by the colonial rivalry of the other European nations. He undertook exhausting expeditions, fought minor wars with Arab slave traders, assisted the missionaries to make the African world safe for commerce, apparently did it all with the utmost British gravity...
Lampy held a ballot last night and decided that after the proper ceremonies had been performed by the Ibis, the Slave would be instructed to admit five new members to the Sanctum. To the Art and Literary department the board elected Langley Carleton Keyes '24, of Winchester; Stephen Olin Dows '26, of Rhinebeck, N. Y.; and Robert McCalla English '26, of Brookline. To the Business Department, Randolph Harrison Dyer '26 and Frederick Benjamin Swarts '26, both of St. Louis, Mo., and Francis William Gerhart '25, of Kansas City, Mo., were elected...
...wily plans for the acquisition of the secret of the weaving of silk; of Roxana, spirited young Queen of Balkh, and her love for the Prince Imperial of China, come disguised and almost alone into her land; of Jan's own love for Mosul-la, the slave girl. He tells of trial and treachery, of nights of passion, blood, flight. A book for the tired Mah Jongger...
...question of Mohammed going to the Mountain to be convinced, but rather of the Mountain coming to Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual before, the slave and citizen of Rome, and elsewhere, demanded proof in a sphere with which he was familiar--the realm of the physical...
...Slave of Desire. The scenario is taken from Balzac's The Magic Skin. About half way through Poet Raphael (hero) meets the Magic Skin and things proceed to happen. The latter is one of those skins you love to touch. All you have to do is touch it and make a wish. Liquor, ladies and lullabies come romping in. The only difficulty was that Raphael got only so many wishes to the inch. Each wish shrunk the skin. When it reached the size of his palm he was to be introduced socially to the Grim Reaper. Before that occurred...