Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quietly] Everything is being done to prove that there was a plot to revolt against the State. . . . That is a lie! ... I am loyal to the State and to the House of Savoy. . . . I alone sought to bring low this impostor, this Fascist! I hate Fascismo! I will always hate it! ... I wanted to restore the government of the State to my King by killing this impostor. . . . What more do you want? What more do you want? . . . I alone am guilty...
...Tyrol as in other states they curse the name of Wilson, the author of their misery. There is evidence that today the Germans are more popular in France than the Americans; that the acclaim which greeted our plunge into the War has turned to envy, bitterness and open revolt at what they call their bond-slavery to our Treasury. Everywhere in Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like to see Germany clean up France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that...
Lawrence of Arabia. To understand how this young Welshman has become a popular author,? one must recall (TIME, July 26) how he played a leading role in kindling the Arab revolt against Turkey during the World War, and thus furthered the defense of the Suez Canal and the break-up of the Turkish Empire...
...Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...
...REVOLT IN THE DESERT?T E. Lawrence ?Doran...