Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...
...Caucusing in Ottawa last week, founder-members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Party cheered their leader, Canadian M. P. James Shaver Woodsworth of Winnipeg, when he loudly proclaimed: "Our objective is a bloodless Canadian revolution to establish a new social order without capitalistic profits...
Enthusiastic, Canada's only woman M. P., Agnes MacPhail, promised to do everything she can to lead her Ontario United Farmers' organization into Winnipeg's Woodsworth's "Bloodless Revolution...
...survived the duel, married Damaris. Action cured him of doubt: by the time Beauregard's guns had opened on Fort Sumter Peter was in uniform too. After two sweet months with Damaris he rode off with his comrades to their gay cavalier war. One authentic incident of Sumters bloodless siege which Author Heyward has dug up may be news even to some Charlestonians. One Louis Tresvant Wigfall. ex-Senator from Texas, had offered his em barrassingly fire-eating services to General Beauregard, had been assigned to a battery on James Island. At the height of the bombardment Col. Wigfall...
Siam has never had a Senate. Produced last week like a hat-born rabbit, the Senate was found to consist of 70 Siamese army officers, the same who last fortnight staged with His Majesty's approval their placid, bloodless coup...