Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose metropolitan dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...
...soldier by profession, was Mr. Carranza's right-hand man and most trusted adviser, until he chose to revolt against his chief, drive him from power and bring about his death. This fact is not very strange when we view it as a recurrence of General Huerta's famous coup d etat in 1913, when he overthrew the government of Madero and caused that President's subsequent overthrow...
...CRIMSON a few days ago surmised would happen a "comparatively unheralded candidate" emerged victorious from the welter of the convention. In retrospect it is easy to see how carefully the "coup" was planned, how the popular favorites were played off against each other to the point of exhaustion, how the well-coached dark horse was jockeyed into position in the intermediate ballots, and how he broke away for an overwhelming victory at the finish. The results of the convention reveal not only the inefficiency of the popular primaries, but also the total inefficiency of popular sentiment in affecting...