Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most people believe that it was Horthy that crushed the Bolsheviki. This is not so for when, in 1919, he entered Budapest on his white charger at the head of the 'National Army, the Bolsheviki had already fallen under the coup de grace delivered by the Rumanian Army. But, none the less, Horthy has consented to take the credit...
Identifying itself with the former military coup, the new Junta proceeded : ". . . . we are again at the initial point of our movement. We shall call upon the free majority of the country to reorganize Chile under the direction of the constitutional President, guarded by our swords. When Senor Alessandri resumes his post. . . he will convoke the constituent Assembly to carry into effect our program as soon as the new powers of the State are constituted...
Alexander Kerensky, head of the Provisional Government that ruled Russia immediately before the Bolshevik coup in 1917, declared in Berlin, where he lives in exile, that Russia is in the grip of that apocalyptic horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come...
Some heroes court the danger even more daringly. Antonio Montes, who was killed in 1907, let the bull come to him for the coup de grace. Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon ?that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada. And there is Gaona, of Mexico,* who fights without a muleta, relying solely upon the suppleness of his hips to elude the bull's furious charge. It is Gaona's boast that the horns seldom miss him by so much as the breadth of a finger...
...Charles Weinert, seasoned ring roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour's torture. He hammered the Firpo brisket, he split the Firpo lips; he drew pants, heaves, quantities of gore. New Jersey does not permit decisions. None was needed...