Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India itself meanwhile, there is a considerable element of uneasiness that borders in places on open revolt. The recently arrested Hindu leader, Gandhi, has steadfastly opposed strife, but he has sowed the wind and found himself unable to control the whirlwind. For his followers, contrary to his commands, have started riots, burned English goods to show devotion to those native made, and have even boycotted the Prince of Wales. Added to this, the Mohammedans, under the leadership of the Ali brothers, have strengthened the strange alliance of Moslem and Hindu, and now seem to be using this power...
...striking example of a quick turnabout on the part of the Chinese was given in 1911 when in connection with the revolt against the Manchus, the Cantonese first, and then the Chinese of other provinces almost completely eliminated the queue in a very few days. This was very forcibly impressed upon me by my own observation on December 10th of that year. In my hotel at luncheon, all the waiters and houseboys were wearing queues and at dinner time not a single queue was to be seen, though many hands were raised to the backs of heads to make perfectly...
...half way, we again must face the problem of Article X. Whether directly through the League of Nations, or indirectly through limitation of armaments, the road to our ideal of universal peace is at present blocked by Article X. The sooner we Americans realize the futility of our sentimental revolt against "binding the free American people" to fight other nations' wars, the sooner the achievement of our own ideal will be placed on a rational basis...
...from causing the revolt and disgust to grown-ups described by Mr. Nichols, the truth as known to observers is that the tired populace roars its merriment along with the dilapidated student who from a sitting posture on the floor of the subway gleefully gurgles, "I am to be laughed at--I am--I am!" The Freshman would not deprive the populace of one of its greatest amusements! And from such statements as this the happy one invariably makes it clear that the source of merriment lies not in his University but in himself...
...rare day now when one can pick up a paper without reading an interview or a speech in which there is a warning against college radicals. Only yesterday in addressing the graduating class at Columbia, President Butler animadverted upon the tendency among college men to revolt against authority or precedent. It is amusing for the most part, this fear, so frequently expressed, that the universities are becoming. Those who are of the college know how exaggerated the danger is; the student who cannot think of five real radicals out of the hundred or more men he know is not likely...