Word: excelsior
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...Latin American comment which was not more than typically censorius appeared in the leading newspaper of Mexico City, Excelsior: "May President Coolidge sleep peacefully after the assassination of 300 Nicaraguans who committed the error of defending their country, violated by an invader...
...Excelsior went on to postulate that General Sandino was right when he alone of all the Nicaraguan commanders refused to surrender and be disarmed by U. S. marines (TIME...
...courage of Sandino," said Excelsior, "is not understood by vile souls incapable of gentlemanly acts, who would have placed in the electric chair even Don Quixote as a punishment for his most gallant adventures...
Tongue Gouged. At Mexico City a leading newspaper, Excelsior, reported the "Calles terror" as hysterically as it had flayed "Coolidge hypocrisy" the day before. Cried an editorial...
...Mexico City the newspaper Excelsior retorted: "The real truth is that the Yankee Government pretends to exercise absolute dominion over all America, and views with an evil eye Mexico or any other country able to have any foreign influence weakening that of the United States...