Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"A terrible experience. Much worse than when I was going down to St. Moritz to see Mary Garden and had an automobile accident. . . . Much worse than when I was getting out of Russia during the Revolution. . . . Worse than anything.*
One newsgatherer had the temerity to ask grief-stricken Amanullah if it were true that Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence, British secret agent, had a part in stirring up the revolution.
"Any of the mullahs [Mohammedan religious teachers] were better able to incite the populace to revolution than Col. Lawrence."
Rowland Hussey Macy, Nantucket Quaker, Gold Rush Forty-Niner, whaling captain and grocery store owner, founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874...
Last month, the now-affluent Floyd Dell wrote a letter to Editor Gold in which he said: "I at first wished to have my name associated with the magazine because it represented a partly Communistic Communist and at any rate rebellious literary tendency, with which I am in sympathy. However...