Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence, this was the keynote of Britain's Victoria more than half a century ago. The great Queen, with her pride in British valor and her joy that backward peoples should have the benefit of British rule, has a superficially different but basically similar counterpart in the Dictator of 1935, with his rousing trumps to Fascist valor and his real conviction that Ethiopians are savages who can properly be brought under Italian rule...
...their antic. Thus, as plain Kate, bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst, Miss Fontanne stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays her as though she were a young tilly simply spoiling for a good licking. Since for the past decade one of the most amusing spectacles on the U. S. stage has been...
Sacha went to twelve schools, got in trouble at all of them, was generally considered backward. He never got out of the first form. At his last school, the master wanted to expel him, could not because the 17-year-old boy had not been at home or at school for five days. His first attempt to sow wild oats was frustrated. When he picked up a dancer at the Moulin-Rouge, she discovered he was Lucien Guitry's son, gave him a good talking-to, took him back to school, standing by to see that...
...that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire to enter the League...
...British Cabinet members went into session at No. 10 Downing Street the issue before British public opinion was whether to protect a savage and backward but innocent African people against being singed by the torch of civilization in Eternal Rome's hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains...