Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DELIVER AMERICA FROM THIS MODERN DON QUIXOTE. ROOSEVELT THE SECOND UPSETS ANOTHER CHERISHED AMERICAN TRADITION. ABANDONING THE SLOGAN, SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK, MADE POPULAR BY TEDDY THE GREAT, OUR REBEL-ROUSING ROOSEVELT MAKES IT READ "BRAY LOUDLY AND BRANDISH A FEATHER DUSTER...
Favorite target of General Franco's Rebel gunners in the Spanish civil war was Telefonica, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s 17-story skyscraper, tallest building in Madrid. Bruised but unbowed by some 186 shells which struck it during the two-and-a-half-year siege, the big steel and reinforced concrete structure served as a home for I. T. & T.'s skeleton staff and their families, occasionally as a bomb shelter for harassed Loyalists. Even heavy bombardments failed to faze its automatic dial system...
...Correspondent Harper wrote: "We have talked with multitudes of the rebel soldiers, and find very many heartily sick of the war. . . . They declare that General Lee deceived them...
...named Carl Erik Mannerheim, moved to Finland as a major in an infantry regiment and was condemned to death (later pardoned) for participating in an officers' revolt against the Crown. The next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended up as a tycoon with a rich wife. He had eight children, of whom the first, Sophia, became an internationally famed trained nurse. The third was named Carl Gustaf Emil. In him was a little of the tycoon, a little of the scientist, a great deal...
Perennial butt of many a rebel British artist are the tidy, exclusive shows of the Royal Academy at London's Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...