Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldtime pigtailed Chinese who is in revolt against the foreigner, but instead modern, pigtailless, Chinese soldiers and intellectuals. 1New York Herald Tribune. 25t. Paul Pioneer Press. 3Dayton Daily News...
...life and works of the Associated Press, on the other hand, reached only some 75,000 persons. These would be a great many if they really represented the "civilized minority" to which the magazine addressed itself at its founding three years ago. But since the forces of "revolt" in the U. S. are now an army with banners, and since Editor Mencken possesses, like most successful Americans, a flair for slapstick showmanship, it may be doubted that the American Mercury is now read for idle-minded amusement by sheepish culture-hunters less than it is read with deep attention...
...wish that the managers of the Harvard Advertising Awards would offer a booby prize and certificate, so that I might nominate for this distinction Boni & Liveright's advertisement of The Revolt of Youth in TIME...
Naval Armaments. Appropriation to begin construction of three 10,000 ton cruisers, an item of small importance, became the bone of contention between the "Big Navy" men in Congress and the President. In this struggle it was the regular Republicans who led the revolt against the President. At first, in the House the revolt was quelled by a few votes; the cruisers were ousted from the Navy appropriation bill. The Senate put them back on. Then the House agreed with the Senate against the President...
Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...