Oom Paul
Americannoun
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More than any other man since their legendary 19th century Boer chieftain, "Oom Paul" Kruger, Vorster is their accepted leader.
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With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals.
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After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger.
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The sentence was commuted to 15 years' imprisonment, and after some months, thanks to a world-wide storm of protest and Oom Paul Krugers canniness, quashed.
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In lighter vein is the cartoon which is here reproduced from the Wiener Humoristische Bl�tter showing "Oom Paul at His Favorite Sport."
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
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