Word: garibaldi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous sessions. This time, Physicist Bernard Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
Died. John Garibaldi Sargent, 78, friend & associate of Calvin Coolidge, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Attorney General; of heart disease; in Ludlow...
...long, shifted from one busy front to another, the Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army in the early days of the war. The French volunteers led in numbers, followed by Poles, German exiles (Thaelmann Battalion), Italian exiles (Garibaldi Battalion), English, the U. S. volunteers (Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, later simply Lincoln-Washington Battalion), Canadians (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion), many Central Europeans...
...contingent of his friends motored to Columbia from Orangeburg, 35 miles away. They wore flaming red shirts, in memory of oldtime General Wade Hamp ton, who drove the carpetbaggers back north and preserved "white supremacy." Senator Smith put on one of the shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds. There, beside General Hampton's equestrian statue, he closed his campaign with a ringing speech to the midnight sky, ending: " 'Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. " 'Lest we forget-lest we forget...
Thousands of Sokols in their flashing uniforms-shirts of Garibaldi red, grey Czech jackets slung from their left shoulders, little round red caps with falcon feathers-last week poured into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk Stadium,* high above the silvery Vltava River and the cathedral towers of the capital. There, in white jerseys and blue trousers and skirts, they twisted and bent in mass exercise. Before the month is over, 160,000 members will have participated in such elaborate drills...