Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Margaret Sanger's first marriage became unhappy, she occupied herself with public health nursing and decided that poverty, debility and big families went together. In 1914 she invented the phrase Birth Control and founded a magazine, The Woman Rebel, to propagate the idea. Dumfounded police, egged on by shocked churchmen and politicians, swore out a warrant for her arrest. She ran away to England...
...Velez rummaged through the last dusty stack of state documents. Then he mopped his dirty forehead, admitted failure in his search. For weeks, General Garcia Velez had been looking for the original Message to Garcia, made famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it across...
...eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany. After the Don has attacked a flock of sheep the pair escape but when they incite a group of convicts to rebel, they not only get themselves badly stoned but end up in the hands of the local duke. This gentleman seeks to pacify the Don by humoring his delusions. The old Knight of the Mournful Countenance, however, detects a slight, wanders off once more to joust with windmills, returns home...
...tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant. The resulting climax will cause Guiseppe Vespucci, of South Boston, to rise tearful from his seat and give the rebel yell...
...good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...