Word: revolutionist
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...like dirt. In spite of that, Essex continues to pamper him. But when Oliver, at 18, wants (and gets) one thing his father never had-a sophisticated beauty named Livia-the Essex-&-son relation blows up, Oliver refuses to return. Meanwhile, Rory O'Riorden becomes a leading Irish revolutionist, a good man wasted, as his father has long since decided...
...headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start a literary magazine. Mike Gold disappointed Beals by giving up poetry to become a Communist columnist. D. H. Lawrence, whose genius Beals admitted, disgusted him by his neurotic social behavior...
...rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort of man" now past 50, once a powerful politician adept at the chess game of Chinese politics, who became a revolutionist in 1922 and gave his fortune to the Reds. Another was Lin-Piao, 29-year-old head of the Red Academy and conceded to be one of the greatest military strategists in China, who had been a colonel in Chiang Kai-shek's army...
...wisdom), last week made his triumphal entry into captured Nanking, the abandoned Chinese capital, outside whose walls stands the $3,000,000 tomb of sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution." That historic moment meant more to General Matsui than it would to most Japanese, for Revolutionist Sun spent many years in Japan, became a close friend of Matsui, who took up the doctrine of Pan-Asianism to which grateful Dr. Sun at the time enthusiastically subscribed...
...Jacques' rehabilitation under Antoine's mixed affectionate and exasperated guidance, his falling in love with Daniel's sister Jenny. Later books describe Jacques' second disappearance. Antoine's second discovery of him after he has written autobiographical novels under another name, and has become a revolutionist...