Word: patriae
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...whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero with shouts of "Viva la Patria! Viva Argentina...
Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...
...unhackneyed portraits of the authors used as illustrations. The book is almost worth owning for Henry Lamb's remarkable portrait of Strachey. On the other hand, there is much unaccountable carelessness in the text; the name of the pilgrim ship in "Lord Jim" is the "Patna," not the "Patria;" the protagonist of "Antic Hay" is Gumbril, not Gombauld; D. H. Lawrence died and was buried at Vence, in the South of France, not at Venice...
...little schooner Pro Patria made the long run to Pitcairn Island (1200 miles) without incident. Hall had two days on the island, talked to the descendants of the mutineers, prowled the storied spots to his heart's content. Though it was near hurricane season he looked forward to as peaceful a passage home, with plenty of leisure to read the MED-to-MUM volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he had brought with him to while away the time. But about 3 a. m. one night of dirty weather they struck the reef of Timoe. Luckily the schooner wedged herself...
...Havana Harbor Cuba's two cruisers Cuba and Patria, went into action hiding behind the Ward Liner Morro Castle for protection and popping shells over her smokestacks. Dozens of machine gun bullets splattered the liner's deck, but miraculously no one was hit, not even a porthole smashed...