Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels he explained politely that each envoy would enjoy "every diplomatic privilege until the time of your departure." It was Italy's first official notification to the world that henceforth Ethiopia was not even to be considered another Manchukuo, but an out & out Italian colony...
...unofficial organization, composed of Members of Parliament, which meets from time to time in secret sessions. Its purpose is to offer the Cabinet, whose members are barred from its meetings, unofficial advice on British foreign policy. It is generally led by men who have served in other Cabinets who enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian...
...Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell...
...lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord Sedgmire. One cannot fail to enjoy the star-crossed romance of Sarah Burton, new head mistress of the high school, and Councillor Robert Carne, a sporting former...
...burning fervor for German, but men with a genuine interest and ability will be able to do useful work in the field. There is a strong possibility, however, that the efficiency of the new introductory courses will bring students more rapidly to a knowledge which will allow them to enjoy the literature than has previously been the case...