Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shack in the oil field area houses the fruition of the financier's plot, the murder of the innocent by rebel-general De Castro (Felix Krembs). "President Parkman's son killed," shriek press headlines, cinema reels, radio announcers. The cinema is interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...
...statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known as the Liquor Prohibition Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote to Timothy Pickering: "That instrument was written...
...South is inestimably grateful for this good news, delivered much in the manner of Queen Marie of Roumania after admiring the local pickle factory. Those citizens who still feel some continuity with the South of Washington, Jefferson and Lee will doubtless now begin to see the light. The rebel yell will be given for the prophet of Baltimore, who is so kind as to lead the backward Confederacy out of its heathen darkness. That great soul, however, should be careful not to carry the reform too far. When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy...
Confronted with such a tutorial relationship as Mr. Peterkin suggests, it would be only reasonable for any student to rebel. The difficulty of securing tutors with the necessary intellectual equipment for their task is certainly serious enough without adding to it the qualifications of character, tact, or sympathy with the student's personal problems. The individual problem, similarly, is such that there seems no adequate reason for adding to the tutor's responsibility over his charges...
...There a rebel band of youths of good family was seized by the authorities, who found the lads unarmed but hustled them off to execution in the public square. Before the preliminaries to the execution were arranged, one young boy started to cry. His companion, Valencia Gallardo, a boy less than 20 years old, showing great courage, tried to console his companion and called to him in a loud voice to pray to God for help and comfort...