Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of revolt rife in American colleges? Mr. Evans Clark thinks so, and in an article in the New York Times Magazine, partly quoted in these columns, he sums up his observations and hazards a guess as to the causes. He has caught the color of a large section of undergraduate discontent when he uses the words, "Menckenism," "negation," "cynicism." But he concludes that it all proceeds from a type of student he designates as "the carefree, mentally and morally loosejointed 'flapper.'" Had he looked deeper Mr. Clark might have discovered that this is neither a very penetrating nor very...
...These are, of course, any further correspondence of Mr. Irwin's prodigious Japanese Freshman, and the Whiskey Rebellion, which has already been afforded ample space in Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart's inimitable bit in the "Parody Outline of History," in which Mr. Stewart expounds the theory of this liqueured revolt in a very amusing imitation of the bedtime story style of Thornton Burgess. All of which is very interesting but has little to do with the Lampoon's recent offspring. The point in question is, however, that there is very strong objection to the cut on page 332 with...
...French Morocco, which is the south side of the Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops of the upper Wergha Valley, which was under his control, constituted an unfriendly act, declared war. The French reply was given by Premier Painlevé in the Chamber...
...another civil war between north and south? Is it a communist revolt? Is it an attack on foreign interference? Perhaps one of these, perhaps all, perhaps none. And western civilization goes on oblivious to meanings and motives of the East...
...last great act was unfolded in the ancient land of Egypt. He was sent to that country after the revolt of 1919 to report on a "form of constitution best calculated to promote Egyptian peace and prosperity." The constitution that he recommended is now in effect and not a bit liked by the Egyptians...