Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game rounds last week the Dictator once set some soldiers up to drinks, shook hands with an Austrian frontier guard who grinned at his country's Fascist protector, appeared to get on well with the King in a series of animated battlefield talks, and was joined by "Italy's Forgotten Hero," grinning, bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor General of Lybia. If they do hate each other as much as Rome believes, Balbo & Mussolini last week showed themselves hearty, affable masters of concealment. The Air Marshal said easily that he was not enlisting to fight Ethiopia...
...have another smack at the creeping devils," said he. "The worst of it came during the retreat. Tired and thirsty, we were overtaken by mounted tribesmen who rode among us, cutting down thousands. I escaped by crawling under a heap of dead bodies. Hardly a wounded man on the battlefield escaped mutilation...
...Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Denmark now refuse to sell Ethiopia arms at any price, in obvious collusion with Benito Mussolini. "I shall march to battle with my archbishop carrying the Ark of the Covenant before me!" cried Power of Trinity. "I shall lead my troops in person onto the battlefield and I do not expect to meet there Premier Mussolini...
...idly decorative but deeply purposeful. They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe. Fear of angry gods and strong enemies was their dominant emotion as they fashioned their fetishes to win divine favor and victory on the battlefield. Wrote famed Critic Sheldon Cheney of this African...
...Every inch a nobleman and a gentleman; at home in court, in mining camp, on the battlefield, in the studio (for he took up sculpture later) and in scholarly research, his American friends will always revere his memory, for we "shall not look upon his like again...