Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
...delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder, Governor Haskell's name towers like a giant rock rises in gigantic majesty which carries a sense of security in matters clear to the heart of every patriot...
...Schlageter was no 'hurrah' patriot. He wanted no war. He wanted peace as all Germany wants peace. But he was ready to defend his home and the peace of his people. He became a fighter because this peace had been broken...
...meet the requirements of American psychology," the French Foreign Office hired last week one Leon Fleischmann, persuasive New York advertising writer, to translate all Foreign Office statements into U. S. English before cabling them to the French Embassy and consulates in the U. S. Impressed, many a U. S. patriot hoped that the U. S. State Department would take heed, hire 100% Frenchmen to translate into 100% French the often bewildering (to Frenchmen) statements of the U. S. Embassy and consulates in France...
...countrysides they are notorious pothunters. Hunting U. S. Presidents or other public officials is far easier for deranged dagoes than pothunting afield. All Joe Zangara had to do was go to Miami's Bay Front Park and take a front seat, wait like an ardent if stupid-looking patriot until the President-elect should come within range...