Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politician v. Patriot v. Priest...
Almost seven score and seven years ago the U. S. with patriarchal dignity named its foremost citizens to the Electoral College, allowed them in their wisdom to choose their leading patriot and biggest landowner, General George Washington, as first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...
...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...
...morning in 1775 young Harrison Gray Otis, famed nephew of famed Patriot James Otis, found his way to school blocked by a column of British troops in marching order, ready to start for Lexington. Student Otis got to his desk just in time to hear Master Lovell, with vast relief, tell his unruly pupils: "War's begun and school's done. Deponite libros*." There was no more school until General Washington's guns blasted the British out of Boston...
Millis' fever chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease...