Word: negus
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...bombs in the Dessye raid were not the cheap lightweight fragmentation bombs of other Italian air raids. Two unexploded 200 pounders were carefully carried to the ruins of the Emperor's garden, where the Negus and his kinky-haired son posed for photographers with a foot on each, in the attitude of successful lion hunters...
With the whiskers of the Negus we will make a little brush to polish up the boots of Benito Mussolini...
...Cross hospital, as later claimed by Haile Selassie. *For at least 300 years various Ethiopian princes, all claiming direct descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, had been vainly nominating themselves Negus Negasti (King of Kings) of Ethiopia, sometimes three at a time, when Menelik (born Sahala Mariem) was born in 1844 to the King of the stock-raising Shoans and Gallas of central and southern Ethiopia. Like many another conqueror, Menelik spent his youth as the captive of his father's enemies. Not until he was 45 was he able to wangle the title of Negus...
HARVARD M.I.T. Frankel 118-pound MacMahon Klein 126-pound Ripin Chard 135-pound Shea Dorman 145-pound Negus Goddard 155-pound Poole Mein 165-pound McCaughan Ames 175-pound Klein Barrows Unlimited Koller...
...Empress of Abyssinia, impotent little Zauditu, died soon after she received news of her consort's death. The real ruler of Abyssinia, whose puppet poor Zauditu was, is the Negus or "King" Taffari. He said that Zauditu died of "shock...