Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instant many a steaming Dutch face grew morose. Then a private, thirsty, petulant, vexed, picked up a chair, hurled it through a window of the beer canteen. Defiant, the men" seized many a bottle, grew pot-valiant, daced to chant the "Internationale...
...Lords are too much interested in wars to concern themselves with the ultimate best interests of the nation, the sole object of the wars being control of the customs revenue pot. I fear it will be long before anything resembling a recognizable government sits in Peking...
Many a, Mexican, standing before the National Palace, pot-valiant and patriotic, throated a lusty cheer. The bell, originally rung in 1810 by the priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores to summon Indians to the subsequently successful revolt against Spain, teetered without squeaking upon its ponderous and newly oiled axis, clanged sonorously...
...hand fight with the Chinese. General Yang's well directed artillery fire made it impossible to board the Wantung, but the British warships stood by at a distance and picked up the Wantung's crew and passengers who leaped overboard and all swam to safety despite the pot-shotting of Chinese riflemen. The British ships then withdrew out of range of the shore artillery and bombarded Wanhsien, a city of 150,000 population, until fires broke out in every quarter and completed the destruction. Three British officers and four British seamen were killed...
Tangier, the chief port of Morocco, an international city at once quaint and modern, and strategically important because directly opposite the British base at Gibraltar, became once again last week the subject of contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration...