Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experience has taught most inhabitants of Mexico to be calm in the presence of bombs. Therefore when Chief of Police Edmondo Herrera of the rebel garrisoned city of Juarez, saw a large red bomb lying in the gutter, one evening last week, he stopped his car and inspected it professionally. It was a time bomb, containing about 24 Ibs. of dynamite and set to explode...
...said the Chief and he called a soldier, ordering him to take the bomb to the headquarters of General Augustin de la Vega, the rebel commander, and destroy it. The soldier, misunderstanding, left the bomb ticking quietly on General de la Vega's desk...
Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history...
...chaotic that scarcely anyone knew where they were at. One evening it was creditably reported that the General Staff had mutinied and deposed President Chiang Kaishek; but the very next morning China's bantamweight President-who as Marshal Chiang conquered all China-marched forth against the rebels as chief of the General Staff. He left behind him in jail the governor of Canton, who had earlier been reported executed. He denounced him, General Li, as "a traitor to the sacred cause of Nationalism!" Seemingly Li of Canton was in league with the rebels, a clique of military leaders with...
...England recluse that hovers within charming mystery. With her father once she journeyed to Philadelphia; went of a Sunday to church, heard a sermon, fell in love with the preacher. The preacher was a married man; Emily Dickinson put him out of her life and then turned poet. Rebel against the Puritanism of her day (1830-86) she could hardly have made the sacrifice from prudishness. But perhaps it was from gentle reluctance to distress the preacher's wife, and her own family. Or perhaps it was a mystic self-denial that gave her the dream of perfection instead...