Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critic who has not called "Wolf!" too many times, once again in the case of the author who fathered 'Of Time and the River.' Nevertheless, when one considers what William Faulkner could have done with one incident in Mr. Bontemp's novel--the pursuit of the leader of the revolt, the slave Gabriel, through the forests and swamps--one begins to sigh for Faulkner and Hemingway...
...Right to Left in last February's general elections, President Zamora, a pious Catholic, has stayed in the unlovable middle. So outraged was he by his suspicion that his old friend Manuel Azaña, now Premier, had taken part in the Left parties' October 1934 revolt that he refused to speak to Azaña. On the other hand he was so suspicious of the Fascist tendencies of the last Right-controlled Cortes that he dissolved it last January. The Left won the ensuing elections. Last week it was the Left, intolerant of Catholic and Republican Zamora...
...showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt against Spain and to discover the strength of the rival armies, Rowan did so after a harrowing foot journey through the Cuban jungle...
...ancestors as far as numbers went, it was constantly being torn limb from limb by factions too mutually antagonistic to form one workable body. The only real solution would have been a fairly rigid parliamentary organization, in which the warring factions might show their true colors while restrained from revolt by rules of procedure...
...Blue-eyed Vera," responded the equally blatant Journal, "emerged . . . as an enslaved girl who killed her paramour in revolt against his sadistic love practices...