Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...Patriot. Fortnight ago in Philadelphia, one Orlandi Spartaco, 26, jumped on the running board of a car carrying Dino Grandi, Fascist Italy's visiting Foreign Minister. Jabbering, "Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism!" Anti-Fascist Spartaco was dragged off to jail, sentenced to two riot." To years Governor imprisonment Gifford for Pinchot "inciting to last week sleek, smiling, politic Minister Grandi wired : "I have not the slightest intention of interfering with the administration of justice in this country, but I feel that I could make a personal appeal to you to take into consideration the possibility...
...Manchuria, a puppet "Chinese Government" protected by Japan and headed by Chinese General Yuan Chin-kai last week proclaimed "severance of relations" between the three Manchurian provinces and the rest of China. Lest Japan set up the ex-Emperor of China as a puppet ruler of Manchuria, a Chinese patriot sent "Emperor" Henry Pu Yi a basket of fruit containing a bomb. Henry took the basket, thanked his Heavenly Ancestors for their protection when the bomb did not explode...
Trumbull College, for Jonathan Trumbull (Yale 1779, LL.D.), Revolutionary patriot and Governor of Connecticut, no ancestor of Connecticut's recent (1925-31) Governor John H. Trumbull, father- in-law of John Coolidge. Father-in-law Trumbull's parents were Scotch-Irish immigrants...
...that generation which the War matured fast. The trenches turned his literary aim from poetry to history; his famed novel on Louis XI and his barber, The Devil, won him Germany's Kleist prize, an international audience. Many a U. S. cinemagoer has seen The Patriot, made from Neumann's short story and three-act play. Other books (translated): The Rebels, Guerra, King Haber and Other Stories...