Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain requirements-a basic vote. Today, Capri corn's 5,000 members-about equally divided between colored and white-confine their work to the British lands between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn (the two Rhodesias and Nyasaland, Kenya and Tanganyika).* But they have designs on the whole continent...
Hughes was warmly received until he started taking photographs and giving the tin containers for his tropic-pack film to the black children. Their parents snatched the shining tin away, fearing it was a whiteman's charm. An old man thumped Hughes's chest and cried: "You come to pay respects to Lenshina, all right. But don't come bring silver magic...
Miller's fame rests on Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, jubilantly riotous narratives whose sometimes hilarious smut made them contraband barracks-bag souvenirs of France for countless G.I.s. Tropic of Cancer went off like a time bomb in the literary world of 1934. A generation wearied of polite fiction was offered great gobs of something called Life. Just as history seemed to be jostling Europe to a new war, the author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer...
...early essays for the feature page of the Chicago Tribune-possibly the strangest newspaper collaboration since Marx used to sign Engels' pieces for the New York Tribune. Perles set Miller up to meals and a hotel room, and thus, Perles announces grandly, "the stage was set for the Tropic of Cancer...
Soft Touch. To Isthmians, Bilgray has always been a generous citizen as well as a storied saloonkeeper. He shelled out thousands to the needy, fed the down-and-out with the Tropic's free lunch, paid fares home for the stranded, lent as much as $5,000 on a few moments' notice. Selling out meant burning $40,000 in old chits. But when a sob story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias...