Word: royaliste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peasants, renegades into a nation. Napoleonic ruthlessness he forbids. Opposed to him looms the sinister Juarez, man of implacable power, one who "has never had a dream." The native leader, never brought upon the stage, is constantly felt to be the spirit that directs deadly forces against the wavering royalist's policy. Betrayed, deserted, defeated by himself, Maximilian goes to his doom, a failure in living for his cause, but strong in dying for it. All this is presented against a series of 13 scenes, done in the Guild's most lavish manner, peopled by a long list...
...several bystanders. A pitched battle in which some 50 persons were killed ensued up and down the Kifissia Boulevard. At last Dictator Kondylis announced from the justly suspected telegraph office: "Athens is quiet, and the situation is well in hand." A subsequent despatch told of reports that the Royalist leader Colonel Plastiras was marching upon Athens with intent to coup...
...animated the men and women who quietly listened to the sickening snick which marked the end of a black man's life. Such incidents make understand able the sang-froid of the French women of the Parisian terror who knitted without dropping a stitch while the guillotine cut off royalist heads...
...outbreak of the war Trumbull was the only governor who was neither an appointee of the King nor a Royalist at heart. This single exception gave Connecticut a peculiar advantage, and, at the same time, made her subject to unusual calls for men, money, and materials. From the beginning Trumbull was in the intimate councils of Washington and other leaders. To the filling of Connecticut's quotas, to the supplying of materials, and to financial measures he gave his personal attention. A distinguished French nobleman once wrote...
...royalist demonstration at Potsdam this week, Germany has given western Europe another scare and revived the rumors of a Hohenzohern estoration current at the time of von Hindenburg's election. It seems that during the unveiling of a tablet to the war dead of the Kaiserin Augusta Guard, General Sixt von Armin made a sensational address in which he committed himself and his audience--including the Republican troops--to unbroken fidelity to the Kaiser...