Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...park before the Pension Office ("Judiciary Square") a crowd gathered, and in the Plaza San Martin at Buenos Aires, another crowd. Each crowd looked up to a great equestrian statue and saw just what the other crowd saw, the same horse, the same man. The crowd at Buenos Aires then looked to a platform and saw President Alvear and Ambassador Peter Augustus Jay; and the crowd at Washington saw President Coolidge and Ambassador Honorio Pueyrredon. Before the crowd and before the replica of the statue of Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Mr. Coolidge exclaimed...
Subsequent despatches gravely reported: "The Prince of Wales is much perturbed over the loss of a highly treasured inkstand which he used constantly aboard the Repulse." Queried many: How lest? Did he throw it, when annoyed, like Prince Bismarck?* Like George Washington?† Like Martin Luther...
...According to some reports, Martin Luther engaged in translating the Bible at the castle of Wartburg in 1521-2, heaved an inkstand at the Devil...
...coronation scene of Edward VII, a fire scene, a storm scene and Washing the Baby-those were the four strips that an Englishman named Martin had brought LeRoy a quarter of a century ago. Inventor LeRoy had got to thinking about...
Marched forth three U. S. battalions of the 33rd Infantry from Fort Clayton, five miles away. Commanded by General Martin, they proceeded to Panama City and dispersed the rioters with fixed bayonets. To fiery-hearted Latin Communists, who bared their chests and demanded to be stabbed or shot, the U. S. soldiers responded with proddings in another part of the anatomy and good natured jeers. As night fell, they planted machine guns at strategic points and awaited further developments...