Word: tocsins
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...days for contempt if she persisted. Sympathetically, the judge called her "the Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding the tocsin of the freedom, of the press and invoking the shade of Woodrow Wilson. The Trib's young (32) Editor-Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid vowed that the paper would carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Said Columnist Torre: "I feel like Dred Scott today...
...Vendetta. Three months ago, during Italy's municipal elections, the Communists staged a big rally in the square. Don Cesare chose this moment to toll his bells in celebration of a three-day vigil for St. Catherine of Siena. The deafening tones of the tocsin scattered the Red audience like autumn leaves. Three days later, the biggest bell disappeared, skillfully and silently lowered by pulleys from its 75-ft. belfry. "It wasn't for the value of the bell that they stole it," said Don Cesare, eying the gaping space in his bell tower. "It was done...
...indifference. The prospect of making a decision, even en principe, threw the Assembly into a tizzy. Party lines unraveled like old hawsers. In the corridors of the Palais Bourbon, said one who was present, "there was so much grappling with souls that you could weigh them." But the tocsin summoned the Deputies, and, in a mood that one French newspaper called "obvious resignation and embarrassment," they assembled for the showdown...
Today the Harvard community stands, almost alone, as a final bastion of academic freedom. Amid the hoots and jibes of intellectual muckers and muckrakers, with the tocsin of false alarm gleefully tolled in state and national legislatures, each student must prepare himself to carry the weight of freedom. Harvard independence has been extolled by its alumni, exhorted by its deans, and recently received the accolade (if not the coup de grace) of recognition by Henry Luce...
...evening's demonstrations fizzled, they waited for things to cool off. Next morning L'Humanité fanned the flames by saying that the first riot was only the beginning, and called on the party to resist the "black wall of police sticks and carbines." It sounded the tocsin for a bigger demonstration. At the same time party headquarters sent out orders which made it appear that the demonstration would be an attempt to overthrow the government (see INTERNATIONAL...