Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt of the peasants finds General Dolgorucki in the coal car of a railroad train, where taunting revolutionists are making him expiate his onetime pride and arrogance. Saved by the girl, he jumps off the train in time to see the long line of cars, one of which contains his dearly beloved, crash through a broken bridge into drowned and dismal wreckage...
...altogether necessary to salvation for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff." So wrote Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1302. Two centuries later Leo X, the pope who failed to comprehend the significance of Luther's revolt against the church, explained that "every human being" meant "all Christian believers", in an attempt, it seems, to mitigate the arrogance of the papal claim to universal political supremacy while retaining it in things spiritual. Even as thus amended the statement is sufficiently uncompromising, but it is the sort of thing one can well imagine popes in the fourteenth...
...they have "received foreign aid". The grossness of this violation becomes immediately apparent when it is considered that only the United States is permitted by the accepted code to do any aiding in South America. Imagine, for instance, how outrageous it would have been if the American colonists, in revolt against England back in the eighteenth century, had appealed for foreign...
...Coolidge reappointed him, Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis went before the Senate Committee on Post Offices and objected. Senator Robinson of Indiana also helped obstruct Mr. Bryson's reappointment. Finally, last week, with Indiana's chief klansman behind bars for murder and the whole state in revolt at things Klannish, Senator Robinson dared obstruct no more. Two years late, the Senate confirmed the reappointment of able Postmaster Bryson of Indianapolis...
...rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised of the riffraff of the city, linked...