Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat, play golf or tennis, swim every day but Sunday. Revolt in Milwaukee...
...virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls "the most modern of all writers of antiquity," compares him favorably with Anatole France, Bernard...
...every trunk telephone line in sight. Most conspicuous leader was one Sergeant Pip Sopena, lately transferred from the Ministry of War to a recruiting office in Badajoz for suspected Communism. Seventy-eight people were killed, many more wounded before the Government with a sigh of relief could declare the revolt well under control...
Back to Bangkok from their seaside villa ventured King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni last week, thus signalizing that tranquillity had been restored after the bloody revolt led by princes of the Royal House (TIME, Oct. 23, et seq.). Duty bound to open the Siamese National Assembly last week, His Majesty consulted an astrologer as to what would be "the most propitious moment." On the astrologer's advice His Majesty opened at 11.02 a. m. sharp...
Father Coughlin and his demagogic speeches are the stuff that revolutions are made of. Men will revolt, to use his unique phrase, to "drive the money-changers from the temple," or to abolish the power of gold, without worrying about the essential need of middlemen, or of a currency system. If his economic premises are inaccurate, he can reply he is not interested in teaching economics; but desires "to weave together the facts." It is a method which the Roman Church has never been afraid to use, in the fact of its own logicians. But his ideas...