Word: patria
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...mile away, on the rusty old German liner Patria, moored in Flensburger Forde, a SHAEF mission had set up shop. One direct wire linked the Patria with General Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims. Another ran from the Patria to the Marine & Signal School...
...correspondent who wished to interview Doenitz asked the SHAEF general on the Patria for help. The general said that he did not care to ask Doenitz' permission for the interview, but wished the correspondent luck. The correspondent and a German captain, who spoke English, then made their way to the headquarters gate but got no further. German guards sprang to attention, rifles at the ready...
...most fashionable women of the time, Irene Castle (when she bobbed her hair, 1,000,000 American women made haste to hang out the shingles of the New Sex), appeared in the Hearst-produced, flag-waving war serial Patria. Another dancer, who took her talents directly into camps, was highbrowed Ruth St. Denis. One of her numbers, called Spirit of Democracy, might serve as a touching, rousing symbol of the whole of entertainment in World War I. It worked up through a lather of militant gestures (bayoneting, grenade-lobbing, etc.) to a disconcerting climax in which a girl in black...
...make his point even more emphatic, Conductor Toscanini changed Verdi's Italia, patria mia (Italy, my country) to Italia tradita (Italy betrayed...
Still plagued by poverty, reaction, disease, despotism and ignorance, the five republics have more often emulated Carrera than Morazán; but they have not forgotten Morazán's dream of La Gran Patria Centroamericana. This week, on the centenary of Morazán's death, their representatives were scheduled to converge on San José to consider, warily and with varying degrees of enthusiasm, the latest proposal to unite as one nation...