Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been living 200 years ago, means would have been found to rid the country of you. but no one seems to possess the courage required to order you back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall do so." In numerous other notes polysyllabic English writers informed Mrs. Simpson that the date draws nigh when she will indubitably perish...
Bishop Berkeley once said, "Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summon bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman...
...profound, is the discussion of contemporary disorders, that the sponsors of the play have had to disclaim its points of view. But "Class of '19 does not assail capitalism; Rooseveltism, assumed in this play, dispite Hearst, to be capitalistic; or even Americanism as defended by that staunch old patriot...
...which the paper professed knowledge was a lump sum of $25,000. To whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy Haj Amin has no particular love for Italy but would probably accept help from anyone who would help him keep the Jews from his native land. The Grand Mufti was admittedly responsible for the bloody riots...
...rhetoric and grotesque anathema, he has never been given his due rating, being regarded less as a good and aggressively sensible writer than as a sort of public entertainer with a sleeve-full of uproarious phrases. His bull-roaring denunciations have been returned with interest by many a patriot, professor, politician: he has been accused of slandering Abraham Lincoln, ruining the English language, taking money from the onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took...