Word: ethiopian
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...Chicago Civic Opera Company competently negotiated the first week of its repertoire. Aida was the first to be taken out of storage, dusted and dressed in all its Egyptian splendor to do credit to the opening night. Claudia Muzio was the Ethiopian slave girl, Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden...
...formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically he protested to the League that Abyssinia, a League-member-state since 1923, should be obliged to tolerate the existence of a series of Anglo-Italian notes, exchanged last December, published recently, establishing: 1) The recognition by Britain and Italy, respectively, of Italian* and British† "spheres...
...interior of Dutch Guiana, Mr. Verrill visited Djoeka, a nation founded by escaped Ethiopian slaves at least three centuries ago. Starting from nothing they have developed their own language (called talkee-talkee, a mixture of Dutch, Spanish, French, Portuguese. English and Indian), their own culture and political and social systems...
...this another instance of the extreme democracy of the frontier spirit? Or is it a revulsion of feeling among European settlers against the observed Ethiopian craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
Another striking figure was that of an Ethiopian "scout", Dr. Charles, who held forth in the eighteen-twenties. He was the precursor of two modern institutions, the Phillips Brooks Old Clothes Drive and Max Keezer. Through his diligence as a collector and his extraordinary thrift, he became the source of supply for students and even professors in need of "small loans". It is said "he was always ready to place his funds at the disposal of the College...