Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1935 the country was known mainly to foreign savants as a "museum of peoples" who remarkably preserve the habits and customs of their various antiquities. It was known, incorrectly, to hasty readers of a popular book, as the Hell-Hole of Creation. Actually the high plateau on which Addis Ababa stands and which comprises about half the Empire is suited in climate to the taste of an ordinary U. S. citizen although the altitude is trying. Rushing rivers criss-cross the plateau with deep gorges. Transportation of fantastic difficulty is enhanced by unimaginable mud in the rainy season...
...desert regions, blazing and scorching some 8,000 ft. below the plateau toward the sea, are the Hell-Holes of Creation, inhabited by tribes of extraordinary hardihood and savagery. Explorers report that "some of these peoples have never heard of Haile Selassie." It is they who today with complete impartiality harry, snipe at and loot any small detachment of soldiers, be they Ethiopian or Italian...
...Beerbohm, merry British author and caricaturist, returned from his Italian expatriation to tell Londoners: "London has been cosmopolitanized, democratized, commercialized, mechanized, standardized and vulgarized. One feels, in showing London to a foreigner, rather as Virgil may have felt in showing hell to Dante. It is a bright, cheerful, salubrious hell, certainly, but still, to my mind, hell...
...easily sidetracked from the silver screen. "You know how dames are," says her rough-&-ready husband, who at that time was already a well-known Hollywood writer. "They go to see a picture, look up at the doll on the screen and say to themselves: 'What the hell, anything she can do I can do.' " What Helen Hayes subsequently did in Hollywood won her one of the little gold statuettes which are the topnotch mark of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which Husband MacArthur wrote...
...took it and said nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization he had started went on, through the hell & high water of frame-ups, terrorism, raids, arrests. The big strike came off as planned-but what its outcome will be Author Weatherwax leaves to the realistic reader. Her proletarian agonists are last seen marching bravely down the street to meet the bayonets of the National Guard, not yet forced...