Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election, I appeal to my fellow-countrymen and women to give the Conservative and Unionist Party a secure majority. I thank them warmly for the way in which they have responded to that appeal. To all who have contributed to this phenomenal victory, I am most sincerely grateful...
Again the United States stands almost convicted of being the country par excellence in which native poets and story-tellers are allowed to sink into unmerited eclipse. By his well-tempered eulogy J. P. Collins, writing in the London Nineteenth Century, shames Bret Harte's countrymen, and typifies the mre appreciative and more sustained consideration which American writers seem to find only abroad...
...challenge the official Liberal leaders to define in terms of principle, or to state specifically, the large practical measures which separate them fundamentally from their Unionist fellow-countrymen...
...Alps in Italy lay the heavyweight boxing championship of Europe, secure in the possession of fierce Erminio Spalla. Undaunted, huge Piet Vanderveer of Holland journeyed to Milan, undressed, put on his fighting gloves, attacked the champion. An enormous crowd of Italians, no less demonstrative than most of their countrymen, loosed vociferous cheers as first one big man and then the other launched staggering blows. Piet rushed the fight. Erminio beat him back. On came Piet again, pummeling, fighting close. Erminio thumped him solidly. By the 20th round honors stood even. Then Erminio fell upon brave Piet in a final burst...
...statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony to perpetuate the real as distinguished from the fictious d'Artagnan. It is naively said in the announcement of this important news that "Gascons have long felt that the protetype of Alexandre Dumas hero deserved recognition by his fellow countrymen whom he helped to make famous all over the world." --New York Times...