Word: waizeru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ethiopia's only woman general, Waizeru Asegedetch, granddaughter and heir of the late Ras Tassama, climbed on her sumpter mule last week to lead her warriors toward Ogaden, a key point in the expected Ital ian advance from the south. Correspond ents noted that General Waizeru's men, though ununiformed, were better equipped with modern rifles and machine guns than most Ethiopian levies. Her father, bearded smiling General Dedjazmatch Haptemikael, is in the field at the head of a body of troops which has already been named "The Doomed Battalion" by newshawks. All are sworn to die for their country...
...long cape and purple cap. As nominal head of the Church, Emperor Haile Selassie arose early, stepped into his automobile which took him up a hill to the octagonal, ornate Cathedral of St. Ghiorghis. He took off his wing-tipped sport shoes, padded into the gold-veiled sanctuary. Empress Waizeru Menen, who dearly loves the Christian solace of confession, and 70 plump brown Ethiopian ladies entered the Cathedral by another door. In concentric circles according to rank squatted court functionaries, deacons, laymen, foreign missionaries and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert. With rain beating monotonously outside, there...
Should all else fail Power of Trinity, there is always his resourceful consort and coruler, Empress Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME...
When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep always on his gaudiest full-dress behavior toward the Occident. By way of reminding Europe of his highly Biblical pedigree he sent Empress Waizeru Menen to the Holy Land last week to visit its chief Christian shrines...