Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...10th, 1930, Dartmouth students were ambling through the customary groove of Hanover life in peaceful contemplation of spring, when lo and behold there came murmurs and growlings and editorials and tension, and then the fury of open revolt. Dartmouth had gone "shorts" mad, Hanover and neighboring merchants were besieged with orders for shorts of any description, and the campus became a colorful pageant of bare legs and bizarre shorts. Those who could not purchase abbreviations, hacked off their trousers and flaunted legs which never faced public eye before. Led by the Dartmouth and other organizations the movement spread rapidly...
Rebel Solidarity. The extreme southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, whence the revolution sprang, appeared to have plumped solidly for revolt. The state legislature under no duress voted $500,000 for the rebel army. Said the local Roman Catholic Archbishop, Monsignor John Becker...
...question of the Church of England, however, or, indeed, in regard to the Bishops, there is no revolt; there is merely silent nonconformity...
...Almost invariably, when a young man expresses his opinion, on whatever subject, his remarks are said by his elders to characterise the modern 'revolt of youth...
...traders. Though few Wall streeters have ever read Oswald Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandcs, it was easy for them to imagine a world in the grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will seethe in war and revolt; all mankind is doomed to a steadily decreasing standard of living until poverty, per-haps starvation, is the rule of life?such talk made spice for bear-food last week...