Word: tej
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obedient to etiquette, the Emperor, after bidding his foreign guests goodby. sat down with 5,000 officers and soldiers of all ranks to a characteristic Ethiopian feast of whole sheep and oxen, served raw and warm from the kill, and washed down with heroic drafts of tej or mead. Etiquette further decrees that such a royal feast shall close with Homeric boasting...
...Highness the Aga Khan, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah: raised to His Majesty's Privy Council. This honor to a useful Moslem was nicely balanced by conferring the same on Hindu Lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru...
...semi-official organ, printed on Emperor Haile Selassie's private press, only paper with a national circulation in Abyssinia. (Abyssinians are more than 90% illiterate), Berhanena Salam's leading editorial was marked for Statesman Stimson's consideration. Extolling the virtues of Temperance, expounding the evils of tej (native liquor, made from honey), the editorial was released by the State Department "not as Prohibition propaganda but as interesting reading." Excerpts...
...Some young men approach the shops and listen. When they see the tej nicely presented in a row in decanters they say: 'Let us buy a piaster's worth and taste...
...When Sir Tej introduced the subject a second time St. Gandhi said mildly: "I will not wear trousers...