Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. A repertoire of the standard Russian, French, German and Italian operas; and in addition such modern compositions as The Decembrists by Zolotarev, an opera written with a careful historical basis around the famed "Decembrist Revolt" of 1825, and produced this year for the first time to commemorate its 100th anniversary. Likewise, under the direction of M. Goleizovsky, a series of classic ballets and the "ballet satires," Lalo and Don Quixote...
...Philadelphia Public Ledger: "The clashing exchanges of opinion in the Yale, Harvard, and Princeton student dailies and the frequent protests from faculty members, reveal the growing revolt against the evil influences of a great sport. . . . . It is the friends of football who are concerned about it now. They hope to see it stripped of its unhealthy intensity, its taint of commercialism and again to find in it more of sportsmanship and a little less...
...Sheriffian Escadrille"*by the American Club in Paris, Colonel Charles Sweeney, Commander of the Escadrille, commented upon the activities of his airmen. "Flying in the Riff is hard, distasteful work and not adventure. . . . When the war started we knew . . . that Morocco was on top of an abscess ... a revolt of brown subject races against European civilization. ... So we went...
...this revolt does prove only a flurry, then it will be a sad admission of a charge often made against American colleges today. We believe that to allow football to hold the place it holds now in undergraduate life is to admit that the majority of undergraduates do not come to college to train their minds. It means that social success, a good time, are most important, and that learning is incidental...
...rest of the staff; I enjoy it, at times, with Mr. Tuck. But I feel that you should begin at once to censor the reviewers vulgarities, for your own good. Your circulation cannot depend on your catering to people who would read with relish rather than with revolt such a passage as the following, descriptive of a very brief courtship: "hardly more than an appraising glance and a rush upstairs...