Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relative immunity which the principle of coeducation has enjoyed, in the guerrilla warfare against American learning has been shattered almost beyond repair by Mr. Rollo Brown, of the English Department, in the current number of Harper's Magazine. In asserting that the liberal arts are being slowly driven into obscurity in coeducational institutions, because men do not care to participate in classes in which women predominate, Mr. Brown has raised a question of distinctly more than passing interest...
...temporary Federal injunction against the striking shopmen in the great railway strike last Summer, all the Railroad Brotherhoods vowed revenge. They got up a movement to impeach Mr. Daugherty for malfeasance in office, but it collapsed without proving a single charge against him. Still they kept up a guerrilla shop strike on many roads and fought the issue with the best legal talent at their command, hoping to prevent the Attorney General from making the injunction permanent. Now-just as their case was about to be heard-the lawyers for the shopmen have run up the white flag and withdrawn...
...second event is an increase of the occupational forces by 15,000 men as a result of violence displayed lately in the Ruhr. Fear of guerrilla warfare is also a reason for the dispatch of these French reinforcements...
...speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...
...concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered and the slayer became the synonym for treachery and ingratitude...