Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maugham tale could have no better setting than the swank Muthaiga Country Club on a cooling hill outside flat, sunny Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Scarcely one hour's drive from the haunts of zebra, giraffe and hartebeest, the Mut-haiga's members have built themselves a sporting retreat as refreshing as those they remember in Old England. From the club terrace, after nightfall, visitors may watch red, green and white fireflies flickering over the Kikuyu grass lawns...
More amateurish than British War Relief, Bundles for Britain is also more Social. It has taken in $1,654,000 in cash and material gifts (plus two live zebra finches, a carload of diapers, other miscellany). The output of its 700 chapters, 650,000 workers has been 900,000 knitted articles, 20,000 hospital garments. Besides clothing, it has gathered 350,000 surgical instruments, 58 mobile canteens, 22 ambulances, many other necessities. Last week Bundles adopted 19 London hospitals, promised them funds to repair fire-and-bomb damage...
...Board of Education, Minister of Labor and Minister of Transport. Incidentally, in 1934 it was Hore-Belisha who took over the Ministry of Transport from Stanley and in a few weeks was making world headlines by dotting London streets with brilliant orange "Belisha Beacon" traffic globes set atop zebra-striped poles...
...Army objects profoundly to the zebra touch and War Secretary Oliver Stanley will certainly remember that in World War I the leading roles were legitimately played by Foch, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Haig, Pershing-whereas today no Allied general has had a chance. Socially the new War Secretary is somewhat overshadowed by his clever and beauteous wife. Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry who used to be perhaps the chief British exponent of appeasing Germany but swung violently around after the rape of Bohemia last spring...