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Word: turncoat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black. Since the Papist-Fascist issue is thus obvious and clear, it becomes more intriguing to try and extract from Claudia an answer to the still hotly debated question of whether Benito Mussolini is a turncoat politician who changed his Socialist red bandanna for a black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grande Romanzo | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Pronouncements. Turncoat Oswald Mosley, a Conservative M. P. four years ago, then an Independent, now a Laborite, said: "The result shows that the [Baldwin Conservative] government has entirely lost the confidence of the country and has now no mandate to govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oswald & Oliver | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...racing motorboat skimmed into the harbor of Nice. Pressmen rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fascismo Flayed | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...read between its courteous lines your feeling that I have recanted my former progressive notions, am a turncoat and a renegade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaign Notes | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

People knew better in the seventeenth century. The testimony of Titus Oates, religious turncoat, political renegade, all-but felon and a confirmed liar was accepted by the government of England as sufficient to send scores of persons to execution and imprisonment. He was a witness worth having. One on Whom legislatures could rely. And besides, how much more conducive to unbiased statements were the howling streets of London and the death-fires of Peopes in effigy than the stultified academic stillness of Langdell Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RADICAL LAW SCHOOL | 3/29/1924 | See Source »

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