Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alert correspondents soon learned the basic facts: the popular peasant government of energetic Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had successfully suppressed an attempted coup d'etat; 200 persons, most of them artillery officers, had been arrested; suspected regiments were confined to their barracks; strict censorship of the press, abolished by the Maniu government eight months ago, was instantly revived...
...C.E.R.'s Telephone and Telegraph Co., seized by District Governor Chang Ching-Lin, reported the success of the stroke to President Chiang and to Manchuria's War Lord, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, awaiting word at Peking where they had planned the coup...
Chief reason for the flight of Vasil Radoslavoff was his connection with fox-bearded German Tsar Ferdinand. In 1923, Peasant-Prime Minister Stamboulisky was overthrown by a coup d'état and assassinated while trying to escape. Disgust with Stamboulisky brought renewed respect for Radoslavoff. People forgot that he had been prosecuted for corrupt practices before...
...undersigned are in hearty agreement with your recent editorial "Black Majesty", in which you deplore the fact that Seniors are discontinuing the wearing of caps and gowns. The newly inaugurated Reading Period need not have given it the coup de grace...
...Certain degenerate courtiers of dissolute Louis XV claimed to derive exquisite sensations from a partial hanging of this type, which they called Le Coup de Corde. Many experienced hangmen maintain, and so does Novelist James Joyce, that the sensations of a man at the moment he is hanged are by no means always unpleasant, to judge from spasmodic reactions often observed...