Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very sad, pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking his collar and neck...
Said robust Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile workers of America, editor of The Textile Worker: "We have read so much recently, like millions of our countrymen, about this thing which is called prosperity, but I am willing to confess that outside of bankers, speculators, bootleggers and prize fighters, the thing to me is a myth, if not worse...
British bigwigs amused themselves and their countrymen last week with the ancient and honorable (in England) sport of shouting hard names at each other in the newspapers. To the U. S., often justly accused by Great Britain of lacking dignity, untidy squabblings in the press by its wise, important people are rare curiosities...
...with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility of his character was particularly qualified to interpret the affairs of other nations and so to enlighten his own countrymen...
...Mussolini, as Dictator of Italy, and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...