Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Marathon, its city's No. 1 sport event, is annually held on Patriot's Day. That Patriot's Day last week coincided with Good Friday served only to increase the excitement of the 500,000 enthusiasts who, as usual, lined the 26-mi. course from Hopkinton to Exeter Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden...
...year's favorites by finishing second last year, explained about himself. He is the oldest child in a family of ten sired by an Arlington (Mass.) letter-carrier. William J. Kelley, a marathon enthusiast, took young John Adelbert to see Frank Zuna wobble across he finish line on Patriot's Day in 1921. Favorably impressed, 13-year-old John Adelbert Kelley thereupon went into training which he has maintained ever since. He made a habit of going three miles to the movies for the sake of the run home. By the time he was in high school...
...usual painfully shy self. But on the second day he perked up, grew garrulous, cracked mild jokes. Coached by his famed chief counsel, smart little Frank J. Hogan of Washington, he seemed actually to enjoy reminiscing publicly over his rise to power, sketching a portrait of himself as patriot, father, man of affairs...
...have just stabbed Matsutaro Shoriki, the unpatriotic publisher, in the neck!" he boasted. "I am a patriot. My name is Katsusuke Nagasaki. I am 28 years old and belong to the Warlike Gods Society...
...paid for a single masterpiece. As long ago as 1931 he had started putting money into a trust fund to build a public art gallery in Washington. These facts were developed at a tax hearing in Pittsburgh last week (see p. 14). With the air of introducing a great patriot and generous patron, Frank J. Hogan, Mr. Mellon's astute Washington attorney, announced that his client had put $3,200,000 into his museum trust fund in 1931, that the Alba Madonna would go into that museum along with four other great canvases which Mr. Mellon bought from Moscow...