Word: blanch
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Fortunately, during the Coronation period, Abyssinia is trying to appear as civilized as possible. The Duke of Gloucester would certainly blanch at any penal amputation. Therefore Colonel Julian was allowed to scuttle out of Abyssinia-a man without a country. Wrote one of his white admirers, Colyumist Beverly Smith of Manhattan's Herald Tribune: "Julian [on Sept. i, the day he sailed for Abyssinia] was one of the happiest men I have ever seen. His whole heart was set on the glory of the imperial Abyssinian Coronation . . . when he was to direct the aerial maneuvers from the new imperial...
...Charles Pelissier and Armand Blanch-onnet, French entrants: the annual Paris six-day bicycle race, defeating the American team of Harry Horan and Anthony Beckman, after Beckman had retired from the race on account of stomach ache...