Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only staggered to my feet and returned to my fellow-tribesmen. But within me there was kindled in that moment a terrific hatred of Silvestre and all Spaniards. As I rose I swore that I would avenge that blow a thousand times. I went back committed to lead my tribe and all the other tribes I could enlist in a ceaseless war against the Spaniards. For over five years I kept that oath. Spain can judge whether Silvestre's brutality was avenged...
...introduced into Harry Langdon's funny scenes does not lessen his effectiveness as a comedian. In this picture, he is captured during the World War by Herr Zandow, Germany's strong man. Later, in the U. S., he is forced to impersonate his powerful employer. Incidental complications lead him to clean up a wicked town, discover his sweetheart, emerge as the local police force. His gestures, glances, movements, daintily restrained, cause explosions of laughter...
...Balkan crises lead to threats, overt acts, wars. During the past month a once healthy-looming crisis blew up, blew over, scarcely titillated the news cables of the world. Bulgarian comitadjis, "irregulars" (near-bandits), staged an impromptu raid across the Jugoslav frontier. Soon a collective note ("ultimatum") was despatched by Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece demanding that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last...
...Estrada fiasco in California, suppressed before it had taken life, is of greater import than is generally believed. It is folly to believe that Estrada planned to go into Mexico and lead a revolt with only the pitiful little army that was halted in California. He must have had support awaiting him in Mexico. That support is still there. Whether it will pick up the fight and carry on without Estrada is not known. The developments of the next few weeks should be interesting...
...young or old. Tours carefully planned to include the greatest possible number of cathedrals, picture galleries and museums; hotels crowded with other Americans; shops bearing the sign: 'Here English is spoken'-all these things are very pleasant and entertaining, but it may surely be doubted whether they lead to that understanding of the mind of another nation which must lie at the basis of international understanding. "This is not the kind of education needed by Americans today...