Word: congo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every month brings a calamity graver than most major battles. Millions pass into slavery between one week and the next. The fate of whole continents swings with a day's news. A fifth of the world's people are involved in actual war. No place, from the Congo to Spitsbergen, is safe. Nobody is secure...
...slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
...illicit-pirated or smuggled. It was the New World center of French culture. Its haughty aristocracy were the French and Spanish families, the Creoles. It was a Babylon where English, Spanish, French, Germans, Italians, and Yankees danced, drank and gambled while the Negro population celebrated voodoo rites in Congo Square. In 1812 the first steamboat, the Orleans, chuffed down the river and opened a new era of trade and commerce. In 1897 the city fathers legalized prostitution, confining the houses to a section northwest of the French Quarter, which thereupon became sarcastically known as Storyville, after Councilman Sidney Story...
...Blood!" screamed to whistles and the fifes of the warriors in Vachel Lindsay's "Congo" only a couple of decades ago, and the dread cry was raised again last night in Phillips Brooks House by President Charles Lipton...
...broken man." ¶ Bryn Mawr: "Traditional hangout of scholarly women. . . . But girls are girls, these are just a little smarter." ¶ Bennington: ". . . The rules for progressive education clearly state that girls can party all night. . . . It's a long trip, but they could move Bennington to the Belgian Congo and we'd still go. You're dating a woman of the world." ¶ Connecticut College for Women: "If you haven't majored in bridge, you might as well forget about Connecticut. . . . 'Godliness is next to Culbertson...