Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrown high" by Ethiopians, would not have glanced and rolled off to a short distance. They gave the Viceroy 38 body wounds but they killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated, as the world press has reported, but also lost an eye and suffered 20 body wounds, according to the French version...
...imperialism at all that we are witnessing in the Italy of today. It is something quite different; and the correct description of what is might be "The Revival of Idealism". Mussolini and Italy are closer to Napoleon and the French Revolution. We are witnessing, in Italy's African campaigns, the first adventure of the Myth State, which has really as its basis, not the quest for raw materials, as was so in the imperialism of the last century, but the quest for glory, power, and the exaltation of the spirit. The revival, if any, is not as to imperialism...
...given to newspapers free. "It does not much matter what people think of a man after his death, but I should not like the people whose good opinion I valued to believe that I took money for verses on Joseph Chamberlain, Rhodes, Lord Milner or any of my South African verse in The Times...
...handed to the populace, up from the milling, shouting, scrambling mob flew a flock of hand grenades left over from the War. Ethiopia's Archbishop in his flowing robes shared in the worst of the blast, received ghastly wounds. General Aurelio Liotta, Chief of Italy's East African Air Force, went down with great lacerations in his leg. The Viceroy, although wounded, was able to stand, shouted orders to his troops to arrest the whole mob of 2,000-an old Ethiopian custom...
Nursing a broken leg received in the plane crash which cost her husband's life last month (TIME, Jan. 20), self-reliant Explorer Osa Johnson declared in a Los Angeles hospital that she would resume picture-taking in the African jungle, would next trek through the Belgian Congo. Said she: "I am quite capable of managing an expedition by myself...