Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cohen, onetime clerk, was a man of power. Under the name of Béla Kun, squat and bristling Clerk Cohen was the Communist dictator of Hungary. After four months he was overthrown by Admiral Nicholas Horthy, present Hungarian strong man, finally ended up in Moscow, became a Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when...
...Senator from Washington, buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill to finance a National Cancer Institute...
...unaware that his Nana has become an overnight sensation, begs a loan of two francs from his publisher; the scene in which he tries to convince Mme Dreyfus and himself that his days of fighting are over; the courtroom speech in which he justifies his interference as a private citizen in L'Affaire Dreyfus. A Memorable also is Joseph Schildkraut's scene in which Dreyfus, white and dim after four years on Devil's Island, tries helplessly to comprehend his own pardon...
Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the Straits of Salamis and quietly and unofficially sent ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been...
...there, remembered in his book a lot of things that had happened to delivery trucks and newsstand dealers, drew the conclusion: "This was the beginning of gangsterism and racketeering in Chicago." Mr. Annenberg declared in his complaint: "Plaintiff is and always has been a forthright, honest and faithful citizen . . . always has been engaged in lawful and honorable businesses...