Word: anarchistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released on $500 bail supplied by University of Chicago's famed Professor Robert Morss Lovett, Lecturer Strachey proceeded to Cleveland where he told an audience: "They asked me just three questions when I came to this country: Are you polygamous? Are you an anarchist? Do you contemplate overthrowing the Government? I answered all of them in the negative. It would be rather careless to answer otherwise. But those answers happen to be correct. I am not a member of the Communist Party. I just hold Communistic views. I don't advocate overthrowing any government." With the deportation hearing...
...perhaps Gainsborough's realism came from his scepticism about the validity of the laws of the school. "When Sir Joshua declared that the main mass of a picture could not be blue" he painted the "Blue Boy," perhaps his best-known work. Blake, of course, is the ideal artistic anarchist, "an almost perfect example of the visionary," and Fry does not warm up to him, for "he was the victim, but a very happy victim, of a well-recognized form of mental discase...
...beguiled the pinkish Socialists of onetime Premier Manuel Azaña and the sectional patriots of perennially seceding Catalonia. Señor Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels' guns everywhere except...
Alfonso of Spain brought Victoria Eugenie, his British bride of 28 years ago, a full measure of woe. An anarchist's bomb nearly killed her on her wedding day. She was obliged to attend bullfights which she hated. She could not help thinking most Spaniards outlandish and sinister. Revolution chased her pell-mell out of Spain three years...
Asked in Madison. Wis., why she gave up smoking, Anarchist Emma Goldman explained: "The first time I went to jail, they wouldn't give me any tobacco and I found it quite painful to break myself of the habit. Because I was never sure when I would go to jail again I decided I'd better not acquire a need for tobacco again...