Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week his hat came sailing back into the ring. Tardieu began a comeback with the peculiar maneuver of resigning from the Republican Centre Party and attacking its President Paul Reynaud for having attacked fortnight ago Premier Pierre Laval and the Hoare-Laval Deal to dismember Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 6). The effect of this slash from a claw of "Tiger" Clemenceau's cub was that within 24 hours M. Reynaud was obliged to resign his Party's Presidency and demands were heard that M. Tardieu be elected his successor...
Last week in Brussels the Court issued a peculiar denial which did not touch upon King Leopold but denied that "Belgium" had been "commissioned" by the Great Powers to seek a peaceful Italo-Ethiopian settlement-i. e. the denial covered something which had never been asserted...
Above all, Haile Selassie has created a general, warm and blind sympathy for uncivilized Ethiopia throughout civilized Christendom. In the wake of the world's grandiose Depression, with millions of white men uncertain as to the benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...
...such grounds that the white race in general feels the future of the League of Nations to be at stake in the future of a Museum of Peoples in Africa; and in impressing even his own French doctor with his courage, his elevated moral stature and his peculiar genius for browbeating Ethiopians while he charms foreigners. Emperor Haile Selassie emerged in 1935 not only as Man of the Year but as the world's own inimitable "Little Charlie" for as many years to come as health sustains...
Quitter? Coward? Editorial sentiment was overwhelmingly but not unanimously with the fleeing Lindberghs. After a conventional expression of shame and regret, the Milwaukee Journal declared: "We say that after making due allowance for the somewhat peculiar personality of Colonel Lindbergh...