Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lockup. Of Cary's novels, Herself Surprised, first issued in 1941, is the third to be published in the U.S. Each of these three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
Died. Sidi Mohamed al-Moncef, 67, mustachioed onetime Bey of Tunis (1942-43), who was deposed as a collaborationist by General Giraud after the North African landings; in Pau, France, where he had been under house arrest since...
...conference, the President seemed in quiet good humor. "What do you think of Governor Dewey personally?'' blurted a newsman. He liked him personally, Truman replied promptly. What did he think about Dewey's proposal-made to a delegation of Italian-Americans-that Italy's former African colonies be returned to Italian administration under a U.N. trusteeship? Truman's voice was mild but edged. Under the Italian peace treaty, he said, the disposition of these colonies is under consideration by the Big Four powers. If they do not reach an agreement, the problem will...
There are, for instance, 3,150 books on various aspects of European, Asiatic and African history, 900 volumes on labor, 2,900 on economics, 450 on medicine, some children's books (Mother Goose, Alice In Wonderland, etc.), and 14 cook books of English, French, German, Chinese and Armenian recipes. They are useful, among other things, for satisfying our editors' curiosity about such matters as these (taken from a recent week's morgue queries...
...camera's swooping eye from the rest of the world; and readers of Graham Greene's previous novels will not have to read far in this one before they know that they have met Scobie and his world before. For this world, disguised though it is under African heat, is the same cruel, sordid, vulturous hell that Greene has conjured up in most of 14 books, and Hero Scobie is Greene's equally familiar creation-a sinner disguised as a hero-villain...