Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico City, the Treasury began to pay business houses the debts owing by the Government since the beginning of the de la Huerta revolt in December, 1923 (TIME...
Advices from the southern continent said that the Sao Paulo rebels of Brazil, whose revolt failed conspicuously last year (TIME, July 14 et seq.), and who have not yet been brought to boot by the Federal Government, were preparing the second installment of their rebellion, were preparing to attack in the region of La Guayra on the Parana River...
...Part of Revolt From Realism...
This American counterpart of Expressionism--or whatever other ism you want to call it--is of course a part of the whole Revolt from Realism which has taken so many different forms as we have emerged from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century. At first it was only in the dramatic representation of dreams within the plays that our dramatists dared to present that fanciful and fantastic caricature of American life which we find for example in the dream scenes of "The Beggar on Horseback" or "The Crime in the Whistler Room". But in "Processional" and "The Moon...
...revolt, the third within about a year (TIME, Feb. 11, 1924, et seq.; Aug. 11 et seq.), broke out in Honduras, Central American Republic. General Gregorio Ferrera, a man of powerful likes and dislikes, decided that he did not care for the Government, decided also to do something about it and started a revolt...