Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...informs us--that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
...York University, and a Middle Western state university. . . . Elementary questions about the war, such as the location of Gallipoli and Saloniki, the identity of Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with the result that Venizelos appeared as anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault is in the student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What...
...Herr Hohenzollern, a ranch master, W. T. Gardiner '14 Lieutenant-General Castillo, a revolutionist, G. C. Cutler '13 General Ohdearno, his chief, W. T. Gardiner '14 Anita, a siren, T. M. Spelman '13 Lieutenant John Holland, U. S. N., J. S. Morgan '14 Captain Da Go (of the Rebel ship). L. Saltonstall...