Word: vigilantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm:
3) Vigilant Wets howled about a Government which tried to poison its drinkers. Said the New York World: "Jonathan Swift had much the same idea of a short cut to the solution of a vexatious problem when he wrote his Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from...
¶The Supreme Council of the vigilant Knights of Columbus viewed with alarm Mexican officials who had "insulted, degraded and expelled" U. S. citizens; called upon President Coolidge to put an end to "this ignominious contempt.
Throughout the War he was regarded in Allied countries as the vigilant apostle of preparedness to whom France owed her ability to resist the German hordes. At present the so-called "revisionist historians" are busy with piles of documents released from the secret archives of Austria-Hungary and Russia, on...
But not until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and...