Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literally. Minister Maginot is not only a super-patriot but an expert swordsman...
...famed type of the Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely harsh and colorful...
...PATRIOT'S PROGRESS?Henry Wil-liamson?Button...
...Patriot's Progress is the story of John Bullock, young London clerk who joined up soon after war was declared, to fight for King & Country. In graphic, impressionistic, sometimes onomatopoetic prose, Author Williamson tells what happened to Private Bullock, from his raptured enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain to the attack beyond Ypres in 1917 when a shell left him with only one more leg to give his King & Country. "Then his heart instead of finishing its beat and pausing to beat again swelled out its beat into an ear-bursting agony and great lurid light that leapt...
...enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, missionary spirit have made him one of the most versatile writers (in subject-matter) of his century. Son of Professional Cricketer Joseph Wells, he was educated as a biologist, has written on religion, science, history, politics, international relations, socialism, tactics, education, philosophy. Onetime socialist, onetime passionate patriot, he is always promulgating some new social religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed, he has a short-clipped mustache, a high voice, coughs apologetically as he talks. In a vote on "Britain's best brains" tabulated last week by The Spectator, Mr. Wells ranked sixth, preceded (in order) by George Bernard...