Word: seale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...
...remember that in the last days of the French Republic their Government offered union to France without consulting Parliament (TIME, June 24). Last week in the House of Commons Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes put Britons' fear into a question. Would his Party's Leader and Lord Privy Seal in the Churchill Cabinet, Major Clement Richard Attlee, "give assurances that before any union of the kind proposed to France be put forward, he will give an opportunity for the fullest possible discussion by the House...
Died. Sir Oliver Lodge, 89, famed physicist and spiritualist; of pneumonia; in Wiltshire, England. He intended to communicate with fellow members of the English Society for Psychical Research after his death, and, for verification, left under seal copies of the messages he planned to send...
...Little brown Haile Selassie, whom Britain again recognizes as Ethiopia's rightful Emperor, passed by plane through Khartoum on his way to join his warriors somewhere on his former country's border. Said he: "Italy has set the seal of her own doom and has provided my people with the moment to strike. . . . We shall fight with the utmost tenacity. . . . God's time is now at hand...
Selection of a new Premier is usually a long, mysterious, behind-the-scenes intrigue, but last week the choice was made with curious dispatch. Immediately upon receiving Admiral Yonai's resignation, the Emperor summoned to his seaside resort Marquis Koichi Kido, his new Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, traditional adviser on choice of officials. Marquis Kido, who is barely five feet tall, weighs only 120 pounds, requires only two-thirds of the orthodox amount of silk for a kimono, and has such tiny feet that he has to buy children's shoes, humbly begged a short period...