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Even a few days before, mention of any such deal had provoked the Ethiopian Foreign Office to blasts of scorn. Last week the feudal Rases of Ethiopia were being sounded by Emperor Haile Selassie's confidential agents. Some of them reacted by demanding that His Majesty at once take the field and fight, as Ethiopian sovereigns always did in days of old. Instead, the Emperor sent Arks of the Covenant to encourage his troops (see p. 16) and talked of making only brief dashes to & from the front...
...snorting out of retirement last week went wizened Philip Snowden, sulphurous First Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw and in his day the Labor Party's great Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924 & 1929-31). As a campaign orator, the noble Viscount has no peer in scathing invective and corrosive scorn. He quit the Labor Party four years ago to campaign for his old friend James Ramsay MacDonald so that the National Government formed at the behest of King George (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931) could triumph at the polls. Last week Viscount Snowden proved that his heart in Britain's next...
...quite less Freshman are being led away by the giggle ettes. These pretty ones loss a smile of triumph and scorn to the watchdog, champion of all that is food and righteous and respectable, but hemmed to the curb by the cars of political petty wigs who know not what they...
...this is bitter book. Mr. Millis is unable to attribute any higher motives to the Allied than to the German cause. Consequently he is unable to do otherwise than pour scorn on Ambassador Page in London; on Colonel House in his peregrinations amongst the struggling nations; on Leonard Wood who, he alleges, had sat at the feet of von Tripitz, and had devoted himeslf, long before the outbreak of the European War, to the upbuilding of an American militarism by the same modern and realistic methods wherewith the German had so brilliantly and disastrously succeeded, on Theodore Roosevelt--all Anglophiles...
...England painter in New Orleans, engaged to an attractive heiress he did not love, tried to prevent his love for a French Quarter beauty from becoming serious, found that it had become overpoweringly serious when she left him in scorn...