Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will agree that the Nobel Prize Committee could have made many a worse choice. An unreconstructed rebel against the Soviets, Author Bunin left Russia some 16 years ago, lives an exile's life at Grasse, France. The Well of Days tells the story of his quiet youth in the country he loves and thinks he will never see again. As in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs...
...shek's party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling...
Like jackals, Canton troops raced north to snap up abandoned towns before Nanking did. A batch of rebel politicians led by Eugene Chen moped off on a Hong-kong-bound steamer...
...darkling, vivacious, rich Sir Oswald was bound to be interesting. In 1918 he, a War veteran, moved into the House of Commons as a Conservative. Two years later he married Lady Cynthia, daughter of the Marquess Curzon. He began drifting Left, to the Independents, to the Laborites, to the rebel Laborites. In 1932 he swung violently back, past his original Conservative friends, to a new Right extreme, the "British Union of Fascists" whose members he fitted out with black shirts and badges but no anti-Semitic program. Mussolini gave him a black banner. When his able wife died last...
...There are too many others who profit by it. However, it is evident that the present situation here is satisfactory to neither tutors nor students. The main reason is that there are too many tutees who have been thrown into the plan against their own inclinations and who therefore rebel against the work. A man who comes to college should be old enough to know how much time and effort he wants to spend on scholastic pursuits. If he wants to "just get by" no one can force him to do otherwise. Furthermore, a man's best work is that...