Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Croatian Patriot & Savant Milan Sufflay as he walked down a street in Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He died in 48 hours...
...alone was fired by a belief that a committee of journalists could discover new economies for a State so thrifty that it spent last year only $15,000,000, nearly half of which was on highways.* Present also was shrewd, cynical James Langley of the Monitor & New Hampshire Patriot whose paper was the only important one to support the Tax Commission's program, and who ventured that whatever the editors' committee might learn about State finance and taxation would be "so much velvet." Absent was Managing Editor William Theophilus Nichols of the Manchester Union, arch-enemy...
...Bruce Bairnsfather, have so far been exceptionally prominent. George W. Russell, 'AE', who spoke here some years ago, will doubtless provide one of the more amusing evenings of the year. One who is interested in such varied fields as painting, poetry, sociology, and agriculture, besides being an ardent patriot of the Free State, is naturally an interesting speaker. Russell's charming Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing personality might...
...present so short as hardly to fulfill their purpose and do not allow boys living at a distance to go home if their conscience or their dean prohibits travelling time. Perhaps Thanksgiving Day might remain as an old Puritan tradition, but since Columbus Day, Armistice Day, or Patriot's Day are now little more than an occasion for speech-making, they hardly seem legitimate excuses for a holiday, considering the dislocation they create...
With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...