Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski's wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME, Jan. 29). Last week appeared the first important biography to tell how Paderewski, encouraged by both the Helenas, became the great pianist and patriot he is today...
...possibility and a highly feasible one which has often been propounded would be to omit Columbus day and Patriot's day from the college calendar and move them into the hiatus between Thanksgiving day and the succeeding weekend. This would make a pleasant four day vacation of some worth to anyone who lived within a few hundred miles of Cambridge. Today it is the practice followed almost universally at schools and colleges throughout the country. In the West and Middle West Columbus day is not so much as given a passing thought and Patriot's day is an unheard...
...Minister to the court of Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, President Roosevelt appointed his onetime law partner, Grenville Temple Emmet of Manhattan, great-grandnephew of famed, executed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet...
...Siam fought both Germany and Austria but not Turkey. Guatemala fought only Germany. Besides numerous cartoons, war maps, newspaper headlines, Compiler Sullivan has exhumed many a curious highlight from the museumed files. Some of them: versions (bowdlerized) of the bawdy war song. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres"; "gasless Sunday." when every patriot did his bit by parking his car in the garage for the day; the late Theodore Roosevelt's furious attempts to get permission from the Government to raise a division and take it to France: the exclusive cable announcing the "false armistice" sent by President Roy Howard...
...former treasurer of the corporation, still owed $526 to the college. According to Reverend Carroll Perry of Ipswich, who wrote an essay on Hancock, the latter was also very unsatisfactory in his administration of his alma mater's finances, and the result was that Hancock's reputation as patriot and statesman has suffered with many people. However, the Reverend Perry attributed this unsatisfactory administration to the fact that Hancock, during his stewardship between 1773 and 1776, was preoccupied with affairs in Congress concerning the Revolution, and also because the statesman had a dislike for business. "A very near great...