Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They merely moved them from one part of Egypt to another. Well, there is one thing sure. Egypt is awake and will not tolerate this hypocrisy and tyranny much longer! It will not last 25 years. I promise you that!" While Mme. Garzouzi spoke in Manhattan, her countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister...
...Tanaka president of the Board of Decoration, indicted specifically for selling "honorary decorations" to vain Japanese during the Imperial enthronement ceremonies last November and December. Sadly has the honest, industrious Seiyukai Leader watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai, was put to prison, after his bank account showed...
Farmers of the region viewed the shooting elementally. They said that in defense of his crops, especially prize corn like the Hoffmans', a man is justified in killing, especially when the thieves are "little Polacks" from shantytown. In the town, people cried for vengeance upon brutal countrymen who will shoot children, whether they are "snitam cinching" corn...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
...indisputable decision for Schmeling pleased nearly everyone except a lot of Uzcudun's wood-chopping countrymen who went down from their Pyrenean villages to Biarritz and bet their savings that he would...