Word: abyssinia
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President Hoover's autographed photograph was on its way last week through the Red Sea to Abyssinia as his coronation present to Ras Tafari, "King of Kings." Germany's President von Hindenburg also sent a signed picture of himself, together with 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine...
...phrase has so inflamed the imaginations of mankind, from Babylon to the Abyssinia of Rasselas as "sunken gardens", which even in America are found on only a few of the most magnificent and sumptuous estates...
...Russia-all the Great Powers of Europe except France and Britain-are under some form of dictatorship. Of the three Great Powers of South America, Argentina and Chile have dictator-presidents, while Brazil is ruled by a coffee oligarchy. In Africa the King of Egypt and the Emperor of Abyssinia are dictators. Turkey, the only strong nation in the Near East, has her dictator Kemal Pasha. Apart from the U. S., Britain, France and Japan (which is a most democratic empire) there is no Great Power in which democracy still exists-but these four democracies are easily the first four...
Anyone who has been to Abyssinia knows that its institutions, including slavery, are on a par with those of 10th Century Europe or worse. The relatives of a slain Abyssinian have the privilege of killing the murderer. Thieves are punished by cutting off a foot while the populace laughs...
Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...