Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the finest things that archeologists dig up were once junk thrown away by the owners. Recently unearthed was a beautiful Greek relief of an Ethiopian slave and a horse saddled with a panther skin (see cut). Carved about 125 B.C., it would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them...
...Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...
...experiences in collecting news, whether it's real or phony." He had been letting his readers in on his facts & fancies since he joined U.P. in South America at 19. Fired in Paris (for wearing a red beard, according to Pack), he was rehired to cover the Ethiopian and Spanish wars. He was Rome bureau chief when the Fascists interned him and his wife, Eleanor, whose by-line had become as well-known and somewhat more reliable. The Packards got even with Mussolini by writing a book called Balcony Empire...
...also. Italy experienced a surge of anticlericalism. But this time the tide is much stronger, because in the popular mind the church has been so closely connected with the war and Fascism. Italians recall that it was the priests who collected their wedding rings to provide funds for the Ethiopian...
...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...