Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranking senior of the two British officers on the folding chairs was a mighty chieftain indeed. Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans is one of the most distinguished officers in the British Navy. Born 52 years ago, he is the Lieutenant Evans known to every British schoolboy as the second-in-command of the famed Scott expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12. The South Pole did not end Lieutenant Evans' heroism. During the War he was in command of the Broke when that destroyer and the Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since...
...White Russian family which never sat back in its efforts to get others to support it was much in the news last week: the "Marrying Mdivanis" of Georgia. In 1923 a General Zakhari Mdivani appeared in Paris. As a Mohammedan chieftain of the Caucasus, he was recognized as a Bey or Prince by the Russian Imperial Court. which acknowledged all Georgian "Princes" possessed of a pair of shoes, a stone house, a flock of sheep and a rifle. Prince Mdivani (pronounced Mmmdivani) had little money, but. as a Circassian Cornelia, he had his jewels; five children, all very good looking...
Ardent Teuton longings for a union with Italy (and "revenge" on France) caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...
Leader Hitler actually left his famed "Brown House" headquarters in Munich and went to bed on a Schlafwagen (sleeper) bound for Berlin. In the dead of night he exchanged telegrams with two most militant Fascists, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Party chieftain in Berlin, and mighty-midriffed Hermann Göring, Speaker of the Reichstag, who induced him to leave his train at dawn, meet them in Weimar. Apparently they told Leader Hitler, somewhat of a waverer despite his bombast, that the Fascist Party must stick by its announced resolve to fight any Cabinet not headed by Hitler. Soon Fascist headquarters...
...other picture at the University, called "Bird of Paradise", is just an other story of a Princeton boy going active in the South Seas and the arms of Doleres Del Rto. Joel McCrea and the chieftain's daughter run off in their B. V. D.'s and an outboard came to build houses and pick cocoa nuts on a private little Island. Paradise becomes promptly Lost through the intervention of Mount Pelee and the young lady's tribe. Mr. McCrea succeeds in straddling the smoking chasm which opens up beneath his fact, and trusty American fides prevent them from becoming...