The don and the bluestocking have to live, so have the cowboy and the cook. Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject La Reine Helen Baker Men do so hate a bluestocking, she said once pensively to her friend Emily.
On October 3, 1935, Italy attacked Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland without a declaration of war. On October 7, the League of Nations unanimously declared Italy an aggressor but took no effective action.
The volunteer Ethiopian soldiers were fed by the villages they happened to pass through, and they were paid only in terms of what they could strip from dead bodies. This included cash, weapons, and things of symbolic value. Eventually, on March 1, 1896, they met and defeated the Italians at the Battle of Adwa.