Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Estados Unidos do Brasil are too colossal for comic-opera upsets, just right for majestic civil war. Each state has its own army. Each president [governor] of a state is a more or less swashbuckling stickler for "states' rights." In Rio de Janeiro, scene of no revolt last week, the Brazilian Congress met and quietly voted $12,000,000 to put down simultaneous revolutions in the three states of Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes and Parahyba. With 120 ballots favoring and eight opposed, the Congress declared "state of siege" (similar to "martial...
These 19 footnotes begin in 1821, end with the Armistice. Only a student of The Forsyte Saga could untangle the relationships of the characters, but most of the stories will stand alone. The best: Revolt at Roger's (two children mutiny to save a beloved butler from dismissal) ; The Dromios (a London night-adventure of two brothers who understand each other without much speech) ; Soames and the Flag (a history of the War in one old Britisher's mind...
...Cripple Creek, Col., as miner, rancher, realtor, newshawk. During the War he was with Allenby's army in Palestine, with famed Col. Thomas Ed- ward Lawrence in Arabia. (Say partisans of Lawrence: it was partly to correct misstatements of Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia that Lawrence wrote his Revolt in the Desert.) After the War he accom- panied the Prince of Wales on a tour of India. Air-minded, he wrote the official account of the U. S. Army's world flight (1924). Last February he returned from a long trip through wildest Asia. Says he: "I have never been...
News from Havana tended to explain why it would have been especially unwise to whipcrack last week. The Scripps-Howard press called a revolution "near," marked as potential leader of the revolt Col. Carlos Mendietta, popular swashbuckler. Returning from a Cuban visit last week Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts said...
...that teachers, under the direction of skilled 'scientists in education,' are the proper and infallible guides of youth. Unfortunately, most parents are in fact deeply impressed by the current mumbo-jumbo obfuscation created by school masters as a class. . . . "Perhaps the time has arrived for a revolt against those who are now in control of American schools, a revolt not in the name of reaction but in the name of common sense, a revolt against a radicalism which seems to believe that in things of the mind there need be no roots whatever, a revolt against an attempt...