Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game rounds last week the Dictator once set some soldiers up to drinks, shook hands with an Austrian frontier guard who grinned at his country's Fascist protector, appeared to get on well with the King in a series of animated battlefield talks, and was joined by "Italy's Forgotten Hero," grinning, bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor General of Lybia. If they do hate each other as much as Rome believes, Balbo & Mussolini last week showed themselves hearty, affable masters of concealment. The Air Marshal said easily that he was not enlisting to fight Ethiopia...
Benito Mussolini in his strutting, self-appointed rôle as "Protector of the Mohammedans" has vexed Britain and France for years by giving asylum in Rome to prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime...
...timid 9-year-old Manhattan boy translated his unconscious fear & hatred of his domineering father, a Jewish bank president, into a puerile fear & hatred of Adolf Hitler. Dr. John Levy of Manhattan gave the boy toy soldiers, boats and wooden figures and told him to imagine himself the Protector of the Jews. The boy organized a mimic expedition which captured and executed "Adolf Hitler." That made the boy believe himself bold & powerful, purged him of his fear & hatred of his father...
...feast) in her legation at Copenhagen. Eighty guests, chosen for their interest in Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...
...when a book by his wife leads him to believe that she ha's grown promiscuous. So Many Paths concerns an ambitious singer named Clara Kenny (Norma Terns of Mow Boat) An unsuccessful audition drives Clara to such desperation that she flings herself into the arms of a rich protector. He sends her abroad for training. When she returns, Clara makes an operatic sensation. Meantime, her young sweetheart has married her sister. Question: are the roses, champagne, fame and applause worth Clara's sacrifice? Playwright Davis gives a deliberately equivocal dramatic answer. Norma Terris trills one aria competently, does...