Word: ethiopian
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...them one night for a drink. "He was bubbling over with enthusiasm. 'England is through,' he said, 'or she would have taken a stronger stand against us. . . . We are ready for the future. We have the only experienced army in Europe as a result of our Ethiopian training...
...admire, fearfully. Once the house was full of fine new furniture from London, which she helped to arrange around the rooms. She could peep in solemn satisfaction at court ceremonies under the yellow umbrellas, and at banquets when her father's guests dined from gold plates. Her Shamma (Ethiopian drapery) was a lot more comfortable than European clothes. In private crises there was the haven of her mother's great brown bosom. And, when she was 14, her father winked at tradition and allowed her to head the Ethiopian Red Cross and the Women's Work Association...
...TIME apologizes for an inadvertent omission: There are 100,000 troops recruited in the Congo with the Allied army in Africa. During the East African campaign a small force traveled 2,500 miles-by barge up the Congo, by rail and road-across the continent to the Ethiopian foothills, and, although outnumbered four to one, captured an Italian mountain stronghold, a number of important towns, 15,000 prisoners including nine generals. A newly organized Belgian Pursuit Squadron of the R.A.F. (in which are already several hundred Belgians) will soon have 48 Spitfires purchased with 44½ million Congo francs (over...
...heavy beat. I figured this might be a hold-over from the Egyptian Army regulations, or it might be simply a ballet habit of spending the better part of one's working time up off the ground. I tried to look as though I were returning from a successful Ethiopian campaign (i. e. I tried to look like Mussolini) and minced onto the stage...
Editor Tabouis began her tremendous exposés. She exposed Laval's secret Ethiopian deal with Mussolini. She exposed the terms of the Hoare-Laval pact. She foretold (from information supplied by agents among the Nazis) the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi seizure of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. In time she seemed to be able to see through dispatch boxes, the impenetrable files of chancelleries, the even more impenetrable minds of Europe's statesmen...