Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...
...TIME, April 1) of British General Electric Co., Ltd., to restrict a forthcoming stock issue to British citizens exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives of his U. S. shareholders, who own some 60% (nonvoting) of present British...
...each patriot weave his own rags, as the Mahatma does! Boycott the British! Freedom for India...
...Famed bandit-patriot Augusto Calderon Sandino, who is still defying some 3,000 U.S. Marines to capture...
...Henry Woodhouse, a collector in Washington, D. C. It appears that Mrs. Mary Ball Washington, mother of the president, applied to the legislature a short while after the Revolution, and claimed that she was in need of a pension and certainly merited it, as the mother of the patriot. Her son, then president, was greatly embarrassed we have a letter which he wrote to his sister, vehemently protesting that their mother was well able to take care of herself on her substantial income. Among the letters just unearthed is the complete statement of the executors of Mrs. Washington's will...