Word: stampede
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late in the week the Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of...
At the extreme Left of the Reichstag the Communists groaned; at the extreme Right the Ludendorff Voelkische Deputies stamped and hissed. Atop the Tribune, Chancellor Luther stubbornly defended his newly created "Little Coalition Government" (TIME, Feb. 1).
In Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the bottom of the sea. Nationalists cat-called, booed, stamped with their feet.
Herodotus states that every Babylonian gentleman carried a seal. European museums have thousands of these objects, partly cylindrical, partly avoid, often inscribed with the owner's name, and provided with engravings in great variety of form. The Semitic Museum has several hundred, and not a few of our clay books...
Good citizens in various walks of life pondered for a few moments last week upon a series of bronze, silver and gold disks now widely distributed throughout the world. On one side of the disks are stamped the name of a, hero, a map of North America, and the Coats...