Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who held the Office successfully throughout the week were adherents of Dictator Kondylis. Early in the week Colonel Zeryas, commander of the Republican Guard which had been supporting General Kondylis, strode into the new Dictator's office and demanded tangible spoil for himself and his men as their wages for deserting General Pangalos. Dictator Kondylis refused the Colonel's demand. Colonel Zervas, vexed, grew purple, spat in the General's face, cried: "I made you Dictator and I can unmake...
Within a few hours Colonel Zervas and the Republican Guard were advancing upon Athens with two tanks. Ammunition stored in one of the tanks exploded, killing its crew and several bystanders. A pitched battle in which some 50 persons were killed ensued up and down the Kifissia Boulevard. At last Dictator Kondylis announced from the justly suspected telegraph office: "Athens is quiet, and the situation is well in hand." A subsequent despatch told of reports that the Royalist leader Colonel Plastiras was marching upon Athens with intent to coup...
...Young Turk Old Guard have never sympathized with President Kemal's dictatorial Europeanization of Turkey, have fought him tooth and nail by stealth. He, ruthless, has meted out no more and no less severe punishment to his enemies than they inflicted upon theirs in the days of Young Turk supremacy. President Kemal, though "Europeanized," has still the attributes of the "typical terrible Turk...
...south, the Bolshevist Cantonese Government launched a vigorous offensive against Hunan Province, a chief basic ally of Wu. He, co-victorious with Chang in the north, hastened 1,000 miles southward to defend what may loosely be called his "rear guard...
...when capsized. Apparent cause: heart attack. Literary critics axe few in the U. S. Cultivation of the critical attitude against a background of letters, and its regular exercise for the promotion of better writing and the edification of the public, is practiced professionally by a scanty corporal's guard. Critic Sherman was eminently of this group, despite the fact that much of his work was laden with a heavy ego. He lacked the quiet clarity of Dr. Henry Seidel Canby of the Saturday Review. He was an lowan, with the midlander's tendency to lunge into emotional appreciations...