Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meant that the time had come for any forces in Germany which thought they could overthrow the Nazis to revolt or finally be crushed. At latest dispatches no revolt had occurred and none seemed in prospect, but the crisis had not passed without rumors that Army circles had "examined the advisability of announcing that a Jew had assassinated Hitler"-something which may yet be tried. On the surface of events in Berlin this week, Adolf Hitler had won by a single bold stroke a major victory of his career. It was particularly noticed that he had not made General...
...have cocked their eyes at Mexico, speculated on what would happen if Mexican Fascists started something. Nobody paid much attention to these surmises until U. S. Representative Jerry J. O'Connell of Montana observed to reporters in Los Angeles three weeks ago that "Mexico will undergo a Fascist revolt in 60 days." Wild rumors started flying up & down the Mexican-U. S. line, and Texans contracted a fine case of border jitters. Soon in the Mexican expatriate hangouts in Laredo, Brownsville, El Paso appeared portly General Nicolas Rodríguez boasting: "I have 800,000 men ready to march...
...July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city. Six months later Cartagena fell, before it could get its socialist experiments running or, as one of its leaders proposed, declare its allegiance to the U. S. But suppressing...
...work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life is communicated almost in spite of her efforts. In Louisa's revolt against her father's unpracticality, she set herself to make money. She got her money and her popular success but none of the intellectual following she deserved and needed. At 56 her nerves and health collapsed. Shut away in a darkened house in Roxbury, her acute illness unknown...
...current exhibition at the Germanic Museum consists of works by the great German impressionist, Levis Corinth. Corinth, along with Slevogt and Liebermann, led the revolt in Germany against aenemic classicism and romanticism of late nineteenth century German academic painting...