Word: abyssinia
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Reclining at Bath, famed English spa, His Majesty Haile Selassie complained bitterly last week to Miss Steedman, a Secretary of the Abyssinia Association, about the results thus far of announcements that the onetime King of Kings & Lion of Judah is in a "distressed condition" (TIME...
Faced with the loss of his remaining holdings, the Negus again appealed for public subscriptions. In London, the Abyssinia Association is collecting an "Emperor's Fund." Months ago he issued a call for a $10,000,000 "war chest," first purpose of which apparently was to provide for himself. When his request went unheeded, he wailed: "My appeal to the world for my distressed country has failed to bring in a response sufficient even for my personal needs...
...actually more like an emancipated Bryn Mawr girl. With her towering brother Adrian (6 ft. 5 in.), and some friends, she was a party to the famed hoax on a British admiral and the entire ship's company of H.M.S. Dreadnought. Disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia & party (see cut. p. 93), they were brought aboard with due ceremony, barely restrained the captain from ordering a 21-gun salute, got safely away undiscovered...
...Prime Minister, said Major Attlee, were "a thoroughly mean attack on the United States of America." Recalling that Stanley Baldwin was educated at swank Harrow School, the Major added as his parting shot: "It has been said that Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton. Abyssinia was lost on the playing fields of Harrow...
...prepared to support Sanctions against Italy merely for the purpose of injuring or weakening the Italian people. In the present state of Europe the continuance or aggravation of Sanctions might bring about a hideous war without benefiting in the slightest the population of Abyssinia...