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Word: patriotism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cannon Shots. Famed poet-patriot-playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio mounted to the prow of the desiccated Italian battleship Puglia, which the Fascist Government has had placed upon the lawn of his estate at Lake Garda, Italy. From that vantage point he exulted in the threats which Mussolini had loosed at Rome. Raising his right arm straight before him at an angle of 45 degrees (the Fascist salute), he gave the signal for a salute of 27 guns, which promptly boomed from the cannon of the Puglia... Then he telegraphed "congratulations from the prow of the Puglia" to Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tyrolese Dynamite | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Extremely sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Immortales | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...time melody boys will broadcast by special request 'Culoombia, the Chem of the . . ." "Quack, quack . . ." "Bryant 1840 . . ." "I guess you would like a girl to bow down and kiss your dirty foot whenever you treat her mean, but just lemme tell you . . ." "The shrine of each patriot's devotion . . .',' "Quack, quack . . ." "Not Bryant 1480! How many times should I say . . ." "If you ever lay your little finger on me again I'll holler. I mean it! . . ." "Quack . . . quack . . ." "I want to spik to Ethel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soundless | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...cooperates in selecting sites for monuments, makes plans for their dedication and memorial, and keeps them cleaned and decorated. At his command, the United States flag flings its challenge of pride from the tops of public buildings, or at half mast expresses grief at the loss of a patriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Cincinnati | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW CHAIR IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WAS NAMED FOR WASHINGTON'S RIGHT HAND MAN | 12/4/1925 | See Source »

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