Word: abyssinians
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...President Hoover sent a special diplomatic delegation to Addis Ababa for the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings of Ethiopia, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, Light of the World. Last week the Abyssinian sovereign royally returned the courtesy when his mahogany-colored son-in-law, Ras (Prince) Desta Demtu arrived in Washington in all his African splendor. Told off to escort him was the State Department's Jefferson Patterson. Only with the greatest difficulty had an Ethiopian flag (green, yellow, red) been dug up to deck the Mayflower Hotel, the Ethiopian national anthem...
Colombia's Eduardo Santos and Peru's Francisco Garcia Calderon dipped the Imperial ivory gift-pen deep in the Abyssinian inkwell and signed. Cried Senor Santos...
...Voice of the Younger Generation," Modern Youth is less articulate than its editor, pretty Viola Ilma, 22, less remarkable than the story she tells of herself: She is the granddaughter of a Swiss Quaker missionary and an Abyssinian princess. Her father calls himself Prince Ali Youssuf Ilma, played character parts on the Manhattan stage. Six years ago Miss Ilma won a $10,000 prize from Liberty for an article. "The Aim of the Modern High School Girl." Liberty last week said it had no record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world...
...days after the use of bombing planes had been denounced as "horrible"' in the House of Commons by kind-hearted Leader Stanley Baldwin of the ruling Conservative Party. On top of such a speech, His Majesty's Government could scarcely threaten, in writing, to bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this year by Abyssinian slave raiders...
Belching clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...