Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S report (TIME, Nov. 19, p. 40) of the recognition once accorded such literary greats as "France's" Maeterlinck and more especially Sweden's" Björnson serves only to accentuate the injustice done that staunch English patriot Eamon De Valera. Surely his contributions in word and deed to the development of a better understanding between neighboring people call for the award of a Nobel prize, that for the promotion of peace being perhaps the most appropriate...
Scene is a poor district of north Dublin during the 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief...
...HOUSE OF THE TITANS-A.E.-Macmillan ($1.50). Latest collection of poems of George Russell, ageing Irish patriot and bard...
...story concerns the struggle of Santa Ana to win its independence from Santa Barbara which dominated the Eastern Spanish Main in 1910. The rebels' supply ship, the "Gry" is betrayed by its captain and interned in a closely guarded harbor. Bronnay, a Santa Ana patriot, gets the aid of Tarlton, a young British naval officer, to attempt a daring rescue...
Hollis--Wm. Collier in "The Patriot...