Word: patria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred, thou happy warrior). Thus was Alfred E. Smith addressed by R. S. Fitzgerald '33 in the Latin Oration at the Commencement exercises this morning. Fitzgerald went on to greet Smith in the following words: "Quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus, to inquam de tota nostra patria bene meritum, haud minus iuvat salutare." As translated last night, this means something like the following: "Although we cannot sing of the sidewalks (streets) of New York, as thou hast merited well of our country, it is no less a pleasure to greet...
...Patria Spiritum Reddiderunt...
...little cruiser Patria and the gunboat Yara blocked the harbor mouth, exchanging shot for shot with the rebels on shore...
...Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely harsh and colorful...
Stampede (Pro Patria). The English explorers who made this picture in the Sudan jungle were trying, like some of their predecessors, to make a drama instead of a travelog. They have done a good job. Stampede is a love story. It contains a little manufactured anecdote about the struggle of two young men of the Habbania tribe for a black girl, but its real material is a different kind of love -the instinct, probably more impressive than any other human trait, that keeps the tribe marching toward life, fighting the jungle in the days when the river dries up, when...