Word: abyssinia
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...praise of totalitarianism. In The Aeroplane for July 5 he finally rared back and delivered this sockdolager: "Even the misguided English Foreign Policy which tried to make an enemy of Italy over the Abyssinian business, instead of adopting Sir Samuel Hoare's sensible scheme for splitting Abyssinia between Italy, France and ourselves, has failed to destroy Italian friendliness. But then, naturally, the Italian people do not read English newspapers, whereby they are spared much...
While gathering brushwood for a fire to keep off the packs of wild dogs that roam the former site of London, an archeologist of the Royal Society of Abyssinia found an ancient, 20th-century thermos bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham...
Most disgusted man in Harlem last week was Hubert Fauntleroy ("The Black Eagle") Julian, who once trained fliers for Abyssinia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Because he could produce neither plane nor pilot's license (it has expired), the Civil Aeronautics Authority not only refused him a permit to fly the Atlantic, but told him he would have to apply for a student's permit, like any beginner...
...Paul, whose latest novel you favorably review in the same issue; Whit Burnett and Martha Foley who left the Herald to start Story, a fine magazine still flourishing despite trans-plantings from Vienna to Majorca to New York; Will Barber, posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Abyssinia...
...fortune of Poland's Gdynia to be pronounced Ga-din-ya, almost to rhyme with Abyssinia...