Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
Although the custom alluded to is of immemorial antiquity, an attempt was made last week to stamp it out utterly by His Excellency Jules Garde, Governor-General of French West Africa. To women who thus beautify themselves in future, a jail term of from two to five years. To "parents or beauty doctors" who perform or abet such beautification, jail sentences of from five to ten years. Thus proclaimed native heralds, by authority derived from President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic...
Sleek, black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of the West African Negro Republic of Liberia came to Paris last week, vacationing after the exhausting campaign which resulted in his election to the Presidency for a third term (TIME, May 23). Parisian reporters called President King "representative of that type of African who is outwardly Europeanized, but is still at heart a fine, genuine black." Beaming, President King told these newsgatherers how heartily he welcomes the great U. S. Firestone rubber plantation development in Liberia (TIME...
...delighted! Dee-lighted!" said Mr. King in English.* "The Firestone lease occupies only about 1/25 of our rubber lands; and, personally, I like to think of Liberia as the gateway to West Africa by which American capital, manufactures and opinions may enter and spread across all Africa...
...remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern U. S. (1910-13), as chaplain of West Point...