Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leader of these raids was Manuel Maria Jiron, onetime chief assassin for the late President Manuel E. Cabrera of Guatemala, and more lately a "general" in the guerilla army of Augusto Calderon Sandino, Nicaragua's brigand-patriot...
...achievements are claimed for Benjamin Franklin by the descendant of his periodical in its 200th anniversary number. But it is probable that even he would have been incredulous if he had been told that in the twentieth century his immortality would depend not so much on his achievements as patriot and scientist but for the little weekly he founded for his neighbors in William Penn's colony. The vicissitudes of its early life and the near-extinctions that several times threatened it would not have encouraged anyone to entrust his chances of fame...
Past citations still current: Dry Martini, Excess Baggage, The Night Watch, Kriemhild's Revenge, The Patriot, The Crowd, His Private Life...
...They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane was in the water, a green and yellow thing, labeled the Ricaurte after the Colombian patriot...
Past citations still current: The Patriot, Mother Knows Best, The Night Watch, Lonesome, Me, Gangster, Excess Baggage, Waterfront, The Docks of New York, Air Circus, Three Comrades and One Invention...