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At the outbreak of the First World War Lady Sarah went to France and was running a hospital for injured soldiers in
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21 May 2/2 "We trust Cape Town..will ‘maffick’ to-day, if we may coin a word, as we at home did on Friday and
Saturday." Complete definition: "To celebrate uproariously, rejoice extravagantly, esp. on an occasion of national celebration (originally the relief of the British garrison besieged in
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and the situation seemed hopeless when the garrison was hit by an outbreak of malarial typhoid. In this weakened state the Boers managed to penetrate the outskirts of the town, but the
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to send his dispatch. She was in the right place at the right time to step into the journalistic breach, having moved to
Mafeking with her husband, Captain Gordon Chesney Wilson, at the start of the war, where he was
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Mafeking (now
Mafikeng), South Africa, in May 1900). In later use usually with pejorative connotations." "maffick, v." OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 5 September 2015.
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it was a different scene as more than 20,000 people turned out in the streets to celebrate the relief of Mafeking.
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convalescent hospital, and was slightly wounded when it was shelled by Boer forces in late January 1900.
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