Word: abyssinia
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...gifts, considerable skepticism and many hard questions. When she saw his wisdom, his piety, his house, his banquet table, his servants and their apparel, she renounced her skepticism and "there was no more spirit in her." From that lack of spirit, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of Abyssinia's present monarch, crafty brown Haile Selassie. The Arabian version has it that the Queen of Sheba's name was Balkis, that she went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week...
When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...gracious. She expressed her gratitude the next morning by inviting the prima donna to her room in the Palatin Hotel and presenting her with a brooch bejeweled bearing the remarkable likeness of "Old Testament-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie, and by asking the whole company to present their operas in Abyssinia, plans for which are now complete...
...caravan of the lush, black Queen of Sheba crawled down 3,000 years ago from the mountains of what is now Abyssinia and made for Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed skeptical Sheba heavily salted dishes. When she grew thirsty in the night, she was obliged to pass through Solomon's chamber to reach the fountain. Said she afterward. "The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that...
...Majesty is chocolate brown and waddles like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter, but fatness is a mark of aristocratic birth in Abyssinia. Mother of six and a voracious reader of Western classics, she heaved herself from a special train onto Jerusalem's railroad station platform while a British band blared "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is Victor!" -Abyssinia's national anthem. No pagan but a Coptic Christian, Her Majesty had come not only to visit Christian shrines but also to dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date...