Word: ubangi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother gorillas in equatorial Africa speak his name to hush their young. He has crossed Australia in the pouch of a kangaroo. He has followed the edge of the Gulf Stream in a rowboat to determine the exact date of spring. He has taught Ubangi women to play tiddlywinks on their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William...
ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN?Anthony Abbott?Covici, Friede ($2). Though Thatcher Colt alone smells murder on the flying rings under Madison Square's big top, the D. A. makes no protest, even when a pact is made with the old Ubangi witch doctor. Dark basement scenes?throat slitting?and a few nice weapons for the crime museum...
Died, Bangwan, 35, tribal chief of the saucer-lipped Ubangi; of Bright's disease; in Sarasota, Fla. A six-foot, tattooed warrior from the French Congo, Chief Bangwan drooped in his U. S. life of enforced ease. He left seven saucer-lipped relicts, three of them in John Ringling's Circus...
...There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable Man whose aberration is paring potatoes to look like rosebuds...
...Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, whose wife had been attacked, and a naval enlisted man. Another enlisted man was later implicated. Last week in Honolulu a grand jury sat to ponder the crime. Just as any other panel controlled by white men from Kentucky to the Ubangi River might have done, the grand jurors refused to see any first-degree murder in the Kahahawai killing, reported against such an indictment of Mrs. Fortescue and the three Navy...