Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Months ago famed Swedish Humanitarian Eric Dahlberg warned his countrymen what might be the result of Haile Selassie's visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...
...legend that Ethiopia's Imperial Family is descended from the seduction by King Solomon of Sheba's Virgin Queen is pure myth. Last month Oxford's University Press exploded it anew with A History of Abyssinia ($2.25) in which the adoption of this legend by Coptic priests to give Ethiopia's present dynasty a savor of ancient lineage and of Biblical if not Divine authority is traced with British scholarship...
...Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
...genes and chromosomes are concerned, I rise to announce that I'm just as well-born as any person you've ever mentioned in your excellent magazine. With the possible exception, of course, of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary...
During the week Secretary Ickes made the following additional news: ¶ To help dispose of the growing supply of Government rum made by the Virgin Islands Co.. he announced that a specialist of his department was at work devising a cocktail recipe. Object was to stimulate sale of Virgin Island rum when it comes of potable age in 1940. ¶Since 12,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space in 101 Government buildings plus 2,500,000 sq. ft. in 103 rented buildings is no longer adequate for the growing horde of New Dealers in Washington, Secretary Ickes...