Word: patriotics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some misguided Washington patriot, unable to get at the Japs, emulated the Father of his Country and chopped down four of the lovely Japanese cherry trees along Washington's Tidal Basin...
...latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...
Poet Carl Sandburg, authority on Lincoln, authoritatively scotched a Rome radio tale that Italian Patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi had been asked to lead Union troops in the Civil War. The poet labeled it "just one more of those goofy affairs that come out of Italy...
Into national headquarters, after the Lindbergh speech, poured a flood of mail, which America Firsters broke down into the "for" and the "against." According to their tally, 93.3% of the letters were in Lindbergh's defense, usually taking the line that a great patriot was being maligned and attacked by interests with ulterior motives. Typical: "We know that the heart of this boy is Pure Gold. We know that in speaking to the American People he gives of his best." One Midwest chapter reported that it had lost three members, gained 60. Other chapters reported similar results...
...most exciting active duty was in the Shanghai hostilities of 1932, in which he commanded the Japanese forces. Here he lost his right eye, but not in battle. At a review in celebration of the Emperor's birthday a Korean patriot tossed a bomb into the grandstand. The grandstand blew up. Admiral Nomura was pocked but still alive. His first glass eye was presented to him by the Empress...