Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Versatile Lord Gorell is the author of Babes in the African Wood, Rosamund and Plush. He was Under-Secretary for Air (1921-22), and President of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (1920-22). While thus employed he composed Love Triumphant, and other poems. Seven years ago he married, and two years ago, at 43, begot his only son and heir, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes-a lusty infant said to prefer a dash of sugar in his milk...
...Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson is not to be confused with Martin Elmer Johnson (no relative), most famed African-camera-hunter of them...
...strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman Catholicism -even to orgiastic massacres of Judas and Pontius Pilate in effigy. Author Seabrook records these matters with a humble sympathy rather than the traditional amused condescension. His humor he reserves for black naivetés, his condescension for white stupidities. The result...
...Mayan, Mexican, and Peruvian collections are large and of the first quality. Thanks to the efforts of Alexander Agassiz and others, its Polynesian collection, from the islands of the Pacific, is unusually large and full. The European collection, though far from complete, is the best in this country. In African ethnology we are extremely rich. Our Asian collection is small, and that from South America not large nor fully representative. These are holes in the collection which should be filled...
...Somehow, Colonel," said a reporter with a memory, "that makes one think of what E. H. Harriman was reported to have said when Colonel Roosevelt started on his African hunting tour: 'I hope a lion bites...