Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommend to Dr. Angell or Yale, and other college executives on the point of revolt, football fixtures similar to the Leiter Cup Series as a substitute for intercollegiate football. These would automatically restore football from its present degradation as a science to its former glory as a game. They would rob it of commercialism and heroics and give it informality, gayety and humor. They would transform it from the life work of a few to the play of the many. Minced Chickens would be an appropriate name for almost any football team Or how about Dropped Eggs? --Judge, October...
...grandson of a weaver, in Salzbrunn. Germany. He mixed farming and school, until old enough (18) to become a sculptor in the art school at Breslau. He interested himself in the natural sciences and sociology, married wealth and built up a reputation as a dramatist upon plays expressing his revolt against social and artistic conditions in a milito-capitalistic state. The uproar caused by his sententious eloquence paralleled Corneille's presentation of Le Cid in 17th Century Paris, and drew such attention that in 1905 Oxford hailed him as "Doctor" and in 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize...
Twelve male Light-Bearers have been introduced as accessories to the annual ceremony of the Temple Sleep, thitherto participated in only by Mukalinda and his brides. A rebel arises in Manland, demanding shares for him and his wild fellows in the rite. The Light-Bearers themselves are infected with revolt and there is a year when the dedicated maidens have nothing to report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows...
...Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.), President Charles Alexander Richmond said: "We hear of the revolt of youth. ... It must be perfectly evident that we are becoming more and more dependent upon things, upon conveniences -falsely socalled. Motor cars are used to such a degree that millions of human legs have become almost atrophied. Students have to be transported across the campus lest they should arrive at their classes in a state of physical exhaustion. I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by. A young man who cannot...
? Sounded by the national hero-priest, Hildago, on Sept. 16, 1810, to call the people of Dolores to arms. The movement thus begun kindled the torch of Mexican revolt which unseated Spain...