Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing: Hans Kraly, for The Patriot...
...Vagabond must needs pass lightly over today's offerings. With a semi-interested glance he may perhaps take in Professor Haring's lecture concerned with our unruly neighbor to the South, but the Vagabond's real thoughts are on the morrow. For tomorrow Massachusetts celebrates Patriot's Day, and the Vagabond, not to be outdone in the last refuge of a scoundrel, intends to lead his followers to water and to worship at the historic shrines of Lexington and Concord...
...Jewish banker of doubtful antecedents, who rose to great power in a German grand duchy,,became the lover of the Grand Duchess, father of her child. When the hostile nobility banded against him he saved the Grand Duchess by sacrificing his infant son, inviting death for himself. "The Patriot" (Der Patriot) is the story from which was taken the famed cinema of the same name (in which Cinemactor Emil Jannings played the mad Emperor Paul). It is the story of Count Fahlen, cold and cynical military governor of St. Petersburg, who played a complicated conspirator's game against...
Author Alfred Neumann, 35, is a Prussian, now lives in Munich. He made a reputation with Der Patriot (1925), Konig Haber (1926), won the Kleist Prize (1926) with Der Teufel. Other books: Die Rebellen, Rebels, Guerra (translation to be published this spring...
...British prisons has been reduced by 27 since 1911. Last week Home Secretary Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes proudly announced that still more British jails were for sale. Offered at bargain prices were Maidstone Prison, formerly used for first offenders, convicts under 21, and Pentonville Prison, where the Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement was shot...