Word: zulus
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...Mardi Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon...
...Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland. Years later they were absorbed again by the spreading sponge of British rule which made them not-too-loyal citizens of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...
...From the start the Palestine mandate has been ruled by Colonial Office administrators largely experienced in dealing with unlettered, ignorant Zulus or Sudanese. Taught in the divide-&-rule schools of British Colonial administration, the English carefully nursed weak Arab antiSemitism, helped subsidize a heretofore nonexistent Arab nationalism, set out to sabotage Zionism...
...packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro embalmer, in a beaded leather suit, wearing the huge feather headdress of the Zulus, followed by a court of the Dukes of Africa. King Zulu led his retinue down North Rampart Street through admiring dusky throngs who planned to dance late that night at the Zulu ball. King Rex went on to the City Hall to receive the keys of the city...
...more she was a world figure. She danced for Tsar Nicholas II, for Emperor Frances Joseph of Austria, for Emperor William II of Germany, King Albert of the Belgians, King Alfonso of Spain, King Edward and Queen Alexandra. She danced for Europeans, for Americans, for Chinese and for Zulus, toured in all 350,000 miles. Next year she had intended to return to the U. S., to make some 80 appearances. Because her fame was made so young, people thought she must be getting on, but she was only...