Word: abyssinia
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...suitably attired, from the Legionaries in black and red uniforms with gold lace, to Dean Toote in a purple cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...
...give thanks to France for having sponsored Abyssinia's entry into the League of Nations, arrived in la ville lumiere Ras Taffari, Crown Prince and Regent of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the first of his House to visit Paris since the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643). With him he brought two lions and two zebras for President Millerand...
...Gare de Lyons, President Millerand and Premier Poincaré and a large attendance of ministers and diplomats awaited the train which bore the future King of Kings of Abyssinia and his suite of Field Marshals. After the arrival of the royal train, Ras got a little mixed over the etiquette of descending to greet the President which, as was pointed out, was not surprising considering that there is only one railway line in Abyssinia. Handshakes over, the Prince, "who is descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba," drove with the President through the gay streets of Paris. Parisiens...
...Alexander Powell, author of By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne" and other travel books, is now traveling in America. He started at Abyssinia, where the king of the country entertained the American, then saw Madagascar and Megambique, and crossed Africa on the trail of Stanley. Along the Gold Coast north to Morocco and then a final motor dash across the Saharah, will finish his formidable and not exactly hackneyed expedition. He has a travel book partly written which The Century Co. will publish...
...valedictory address, said the entrance of the U. S. into the League was " vastly important for the future of mankind." His address was received with enthusiasm by the delegates. It can fairly be said that the only exclusive business enacted during the Assembly was the admittance of Ireland and Abyssinia to the League thus swelling the membership to 54 nations...