Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post. His criticisms are noteworthy for their intelligence as well as iconoclasm. Critic Brown is hard to please. A onetime student at famed Professor George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop, Critic Brown has never written a play himself but has published critical works (Upstage, Modern Theatre in Revolt). This summer he will again teach at the University of Montana...
...place, made a long-winded goodwill speech. The grumblings of the other mayors grew louder as the visitors trooped to the Hotel de Ville for luncheon. Mayor Baker was accused of "hogging the show," of making all the addresses, bossing the itinerary. After the meal there was an open revolt. "Let's settle this thing right here in the city hall." cried one mayor. But calmer counsel prevailed and the mayors adjourned to Claridge's where at a three-hour secret session all jealousies and animosities were threshed. The result was appointment of a soviet of five members...
Strategy of the Madeira revolt as planned by exiles and opponents of the five-year Portuguese dictatorship of General Antonio Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, was that Madeira should rebel first. When troops and ships were withdrawn from Lisbon to suppress this island uprising, Lisbon too would rise up in revolt. But the Lisbon revolt fizzled last week. A sabre charge and the rattle of machine guns quieted the revolutionists...
...with potent Politico Wang Chingwei. Both these men used to be intimates of President Chiang, broke with him some time ago, flayed him last week as a Dictator, called his Congress a fake. Upon seizing power, General Chen made the usual pretentions that all adjoining provinces had joined his revolt. In terror from Canton fled the Governor of the Province (Kwangtung), sagacious Chen Mingshu...
Round the edges of the Spanish Main, fires of revolt burned dimly last week, battles subsided, alarums were frequent...