Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service in the United Presbyterian Church. From New York last week he sailed for Africa to begin his $1st year in the Egyptian Sudan. White-haired, bearded, grey-eyed, he was cosily reminiscent upon departing. He recalled his first trip in 1881, when the Mahdists were stirring up revolt against Egypt. Fanatic Mussulmen killed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon in 1885; the late great Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener subdued them, captured the city of Omdurman. Young Dr. Giffen was there. After pacifying the country, the British temporarily barred missionaries. Dr. Giffen and his wife left Omdurman, found a tribe...
...became Provisional President, promised that Congress would investigate the ousted President's acts.* In jig time the No. 7 Revolution to force out a Constitutional President in South America since Bolivia made No. 1, subsided for the week. Observers scanned the troubled continent, saw only three republics where revolt has not successfully raised its head: two-faced Colombia†; cattle-rich little Uruguay; oily Venezuela...
Meanwhile Peru has had a triple revolution. Picturesque, hard-swearing Lieut. Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro, who led the first armed revolt and was ousted by the second, became a presidential candidate after the third revolt. Peruvian voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru...
...Geronimo's hat, and Favia loved him for it; but an Indian woman had attached herself to him and refused to let go. Also Esteban was beginning to dabble in the fire of revolutionary politics. When he simplified everything by leading his tough soldiers in a successful revolt he knew he had lost Favia forever, but he knew Marta was really more his style...
...live in an age of revolt. All things good are bad; and things bad are not bad enough. Institutions are corrupt, men are stupid, football is overemphasized, life is a long rope with a noose at the end. This is perhaps a sound enough criticism of modern life, but unfortunately we are not content to belittle ourselves, we must go back and belittle our fathers. Washington was a cursing drunkard, Hamilton gadded about with far too many women, Jefferson was a pompous hypocrite. This is a bad business. The Vagabond likes to feel that there were giants upon the earth...