Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band swung into the "Marseillaise" and the master of ceremonies bellowed: "Now we come to that great patriot of France!" Across the stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
Last week the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, celebrating its 80th birthday, held a drawing for cash prizes, proposed to publicize the winners in a splash of goodwill advertising. Winner of the $1,000 capital prize: Mildred Rosebud Baturin. Ruefully the Patriot paid $1,000 to Mildred Rosebud Baturin, associate society editor of the rival Harrisburg Telegraph...
Among Chilean blood relations of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is his smart fourth cousin, Jorge Delano of Santiago. Cousin Jorge is a grandson of sea-roving Paul Delano, the swashbuckling Chilean patriot who helped to break Spain's power on South America's West Coast. Last week Jorge Delano emerged from a garage near Santiago's noisy Alameda de las Delicias to announce a triumph of which all Delanos may well be proud. He had just shot 30,000 feet of sound cinema film, the first 100% Chilean talkie...
Indignant at the vote for Statehood, Professor Clemente Pereda who hunger-struck for independence (TIME, April 9) demanded the formation of an Independence Party. Angry that the Professor should seek to split the Nationalist Party (which also carries the independence banner ) Student Francisco Pagan Rodriguez assaulted Patriot Pereda. In no wise had seven foodless days permanently incapacitated the Professor. With one roundhouse right he floored his assailant, proceeded to pummel him until they were separated...
...Miss Sears' manner of expressing herself. Choosing excerpts from a book is a vicious practice, but one example will illustrate this point unfortunately well and will serve as an all too fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where...