Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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UTAH: Chief Old Posey (who led a recent revolt of the Piute Indians, which was quelled) was discovered dead in a cave where he had crawled, wounded...
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: General Emilo Aguinaldo, who 24 years ago led the Filipino revolutionists and later took an oath of allegiance to the United States, is organizing an association of veterans of his revolt...
...Youth" movement, which is widespread in Germany and is extending its influence to the rest of Europe and to America, is a revolt against intellectual complacence, and self-satisfied smugness. It has resulted in Germany in the "Wander-lovers", bands of young people who are walking about seeing their country at first hand, and interesting themselves in everything. In America, its evidences are chiefly oratory, intercollegiate conferences, and the springing up all over the land of student discussion societies and publications devoted to criticism. Apparently the revolution that Sir James Barrie advocated of Youth against its Betters has finally made...
...sort of king " who reigns but does not govern." They held the constitution up for some time by claiming that the legislative power should be solely with the monarch and that he should in no way be responsible to Parliament. In the face of public opinion and a threatened revolt, both the King and the Court capitulated, and Fuad I, by signing the constitution, becomes a constitutional monarch...
IMPROMPTU-Elliot H. Paul--Knopf ($2.00). The author of that promising first novel Indelible, now living in Boston, here writes a novel of disillusionment and revolt, but without sensationalism or coarseness. The figure of the hero is weak and unsympathetic, but Mr. Paul manages the unpleasantness of his plot with reserve and pity. The story tells the history of a tormented and afraid young man who runs away to war, and returns, the victim of his weakness, to find his former sweetheart. For a time the girl supports him, but after much unhappiness he runs away again to join...