Word: revolutionist
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...Floyd Dell had a brief period of significance. . . . At no time was [he] a real revolutionist. . . . He was a Greenwich Village playboy...
...those who heard him preach the methods of a new government, but also in the history of modern Europe. Even the tremendous magnitude of American intervention in the World War did not wholly overshadow the decision on the part of the German Staff to convoy so dangerous a revolutionist back to his own country from exile. It was that event that marked the beginning of a new Russia, and the subsequent rise of governments elsewhere which felt the need of coping with a remodelled situation...
John Ringling, circusman, purchased last week for $400 the bathtub in which French Revolutionist Jean Paul Marat was lolling when Charlotte Corday assassinated him. Other famed bathtubs, unpriced, are linked with Diogenes, Earl Carroll...
...Paul Koundouriotis, President of Greece, also a onetime co-revolutionist with Venizelos, dissolved Parliament and then signed a decree so altering the electoral law that the Venizelists, who would probably have won the next election, are now assured a sweeping victory. The decree provides among other things that no Jew may stand for election except on the "Jewish Ticket" which will have to be created for that purpose...
...would have been hard to find a more representative radical among modern U. S. artists than John Sloan. In 1907, before the advent of cubism and futurism, he was listed among the "original 8,"* revolutionist painters who were contrasted with the conservatives' "original 10." In 1918, he was elected president of the Independent Artists, to succeed William J. Glackens, and has since modestly declared that he is still president only because he has been "unable...