Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. Morris obediently jangled the engine room telegraph. Wheezing asthmatically, the Maracaibo put out to sea. All the way to the mainland the Venezuelan rebels, inflamed with the success of the most daring filibuster in years, ate and drank and shouted again and again the words of their Captain, "On...
U. S. newspapers dwelt fondly on the word "filibuster" in describing the Curaçao fracas, harked back to Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry.
"Filibuster?" said blunt Beelaerts, "It was a putsch!"
Filibuster
In Malvern, Pa., the Rev. Joseph Sproule preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the...