Word: cock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last...
...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...
...perpetrate a New Deal âl'americaino. With Parliament adjourned and the new Cabinet embarked on a drastic program of balancing the budget and reducing the cost of life's necessities by decree laws, Governor Tannery felt so good last week that he indulged in a loud fiscal cock-a-doodle...
...currency has been defended against attacks of every kind and now offers increased guarantees for secure investment," crowed Cock Tannery. "No other country possesses such enormous reserves of funds at present hoarded. Although deplorable in itself, this factor, which has been harmful up to the present. may now be turned to use and in the battle against Depression be made to play the role of fresh troops coming into battle and bringing Victory with them...
...smart Lieut. Colonel Francis Norris, a suave British bear raider. Last week a nod from Governor Tannery expelled another British bear, 27-year-old Serge Rubenstein, brilliant Cambridge economist and founder of Paris' Franco-Asiatic Bank. A third young man who sold too many francs short to suit Gold Cock Tannery was Bertrand Coles Neidecker, fugitive U. S. founder of Paris' closed Travelers Bank (TIME...