Word: abyssinia
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...Empress of Abyssinia, impotent little Zauditu, died soon after she received news of her consort's death. The real ruler of Abyssinia, whose puppet poor Zauditu was, is the Negus or "King" Taffari. He said that Zauditu died of "shock...
...trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking) or compression (upthrusting of the sides...
Married. Miss Gertrude Ellen du Puy Sanford of Manhattan, sister of Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford (international poloist and turfman), to Sidney Jennings Legendre of New Orleans, La., Princeton athlete (1925) and adventurer (she went with him last year to the Mountains of the Moon, Abyssinia, on a museum trip); in Manhattan...
...TIME, July 15, p. 4, Mr. Louis Estell Fagan II, writes: "You might remove Abyssinia and substitute Dominican Republic...
...Many a U. S. Negro is received at the White House executive office. And of course foreign Negroes-officials from Liberia, Abyssinia, Haiti -present their credentials in the Blue Room...