Word: veldt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the city, flags were waved, flowers thrown, white, black and yellow people cheered in a strange assortment of languages; children sang. Many were in the crowd who had traveled hundreds of miles to be present at the Prince's arrival and many of these were the Boer veldt farmers,, some even hailing from the Orange Free State, that alleged home of South African republicanism...
...will be welcomed in the lonely plains of the Free State, on the high veldt of the Transvaal and in solitary villages with the same warmth as here...
...fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly while the incomparable Pam is battling with disease. The story is told economically, permits itself little deviation from formula, bristles with romance and what may be termed African color...
...knickerbockers, was on the way to seeing purple elephants. So she rescued him, after many struggles and an incidental murder-her sex was finally discovered and the mystery of her past cleared up satisfactorily -and she and Druro, presumably, settled happily down to life on the veldt together. A frankly melodramatic story, cleanly and competently written, with none of the laborious " ashes of passion " touch one has met in some novels dealing with the same locale...
...which they live. They are a group of outcast English men and women; a hard drinking, excitement seeking lot; each of whom is hoping that some day he may dig a golden fortune from the soil. They represent a wide variety of types, and yet on them all the veldt has its spell, and instead of being normal energetic human beings, they are lethargic lovable neerdowell...