Word: ethiopian
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...blast, received ghastly wounds. General Aurelio Liotta, Chief of Italy's East African Air Force, went down with great lacerations in his leg. The Viceroy, although wounded, was able to stand, shouted orders to his troops to arrest the whole mob of 2,000-an old Ethiopian custom...
...attributes of a tragic drama. One can almost visualize a Hollywood movie version of Pushkin's life. For the life, in general, partook of melodrama: the protagonist was descended of an aristocratic family on his father's side while his mother was the lineal descendant of an Ethiopian prince, whom Peter the Great had acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte to the icy Russian steppes, but Pushkin bridged the distance, uniting in himself these diverse strains, for as an American critic has said, "the poet was proud of his mixed blood...
Reputedly suffering from a tropical disease, bluff British Promoter Francis William Rickett, who wangled Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s short-lived Ethiopian oil concession of 1935 (TIME, Sept. 9. 1935 et seq.), resigned as Master of Foxhounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire when his doctors forbade him to ride for ten months...
Back to London hurried Mr. Duff Cooper, and it remained to be seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible...
...firms dealing in it, forbids its shipment to belligerent nations and permits its shipment abroad under any circumstances only upon receipt of a license from a division of the State Department. The Act became effective in November 1935. just in time to take all the fun out of the Ethiopian war for many a U. S. armorer. But there is nothing in the act which defines as " belligerents" either side of a civil...