Word: tribesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychologist Wolff reports that this finding was confirmed by an anthropologist studying African savages. The anthropologist photographed Kais tribesmen, who had never seen themselves in a mirror, and showed them the pictures. One tribesman, when he saw himself, screamed: "Kill this disgusting animal...
...kind of low, clammy, soft-footed, zoot-suited, Persian prolixity and Madame Overdone Hotbed, bawdy and Baluchistan tribesman sort of spurious de luxe taste had crept in during . . . the past 20 years. Against all this the good gray typographer, B.R., has set his vertical spine...
...lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor and put him in a good mood for the trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon makes the finale a freezing picture of a colonial court in action. When Timar hurries to court to denounce his mistress, a trader informs...
...Hull, Hope and Crosby ad-lib their way to a native village ruled over by Princess Lamour who retains the pleasant knack of looking undressed even when fully clothed. Already betrothed to a native sheik (Anthony Quinn), Lamour gives her affections first to Hope, then to Crosby. Tribesman Quinn's desire for revenge touches off the Keystone excitement. Chief difference between Road to Morocco and its predecessors is that Hope also gets a girl...
...about a dozen. For instance, "Mot a nkele nda, ve atan, atan (Person he not go in house, but outside, outside)" is a warning that there is a leopard on the loose. When the drum says: "A nto ane jomolo, jomolo (He is as weakening, weakening)," it means a tribesman is very ill. When a man has died, the drum taps: "Only folds, folds hands on breast...