Word: goates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes. BUT, in return, you must observe strict discipline, you must consider yourselves my own soldiers. Not one word of all this is to be written until the battle ends." Right in front of the Marshal's headquarters stood the powerful Zeiss telescope, formidable as a cannon, that goat-bearded Marshal de Bono had brought to Africa. Through it the staff officers and war correspondents squinted for the next six days, saw the whole development of a modern military engagement as few men have ever done. About ten miles straight before them was Amba Aradam, the mountain that...
...year how sore at my heart I was to have a little putt putt thrust in my face and asked to " 'fess up" when I knew nothing more about it then than I do now. As the ancients would say, 'Twas as if the officer were milking the he-goat and Apted were holding the sieve...
...career as a ballet dancer in Munich in 1923. By 1930, she was one of her country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed...
...reserves for which he had been frantically wiring ever since the Ethiopian War started were finally sent him month ago. His immediate superior was no longer the goat-bearded Fascist Politician Marshal de Bono, but a personal friend and fellow regular, stocky Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Best of all, he had just won the first definite complete victory of the entire Ethiopian campaign, and with regular army troops...
...would, as in 1924 and 1925, make the traditional mess of French monetary affairs the Left has so often made in France, thus enraging the populace and strengthening the Right on the Rebound. Elder leaders of the Radical Socialists, such as famed "Edouard I" Herriot, who was made the goat of France's currency debacle in 1925 and 1926, have tried vainly to restrain the younger Radical Socialists led by the Party's irascible new President "Edouard II" Daladier...