Word: patria
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...land Marines to protect U. S. lives? The U. S. Embassy soothed: "There is no indication that any Americans have been killed intentionally." Meanwhile the Battle of the National grew nautical. The hotel faces the sea. President Grau sent Cuba's perky little training ship Patria to shell the officers with her light deck guns. Stubbornly they held out. After five hours of battle, with officer casualties unknown but with 20 soldiers dead and 100 gravely wounded, a group of officers' wives rushed to Ambassador Welles, begged him to stop the bloodshed. "Ladies," cried Mr. Welles, "only...
...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...