Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mounted on a prancing ass, and with an embroidered velvet chieftain's robe worn like a chasuble over his Italian army uniform, bug-eyed Haile Selassie Gugsa, traitorous son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, rode in triumph last week into his old capital of Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their...
...Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian's ancestral costume, what seemed to be a thoroughly anachronistic price tag. In a flurry of embarrassment the chieftain's tag was ripped off while Secretary Ickes, covering up, seized a pen and hurriedly squiggled his signature to the constitution...
Died. Sir John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 71, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, holder of 14 peerages, chieftain of the clan Scott, prospective father-in-law of George V's third son, the Duke of Gloucester (TIME, Sept. 9); in Selkirk, Scotland...
This put the Ethiopian commander facing General Graziani, Dedjazmatch Nassibu, in a towering rage. His lion's mane headdress trembling with emotion, that chieftain roared...
...arms of an Italian doctor. With his last breath he made his son Gugsa swear eternal friendship to Italy. Well aware of all this has been Emperor Haile Selassie. Some years ago to keep Ras Gugsa and his 15,000 warriors in line, the Emperor married the Tigre Chieftain to his second daughter, but she unfortunately died in childbirth. Last week Ras Gugsa found the time ripe to remember his father's promises...