Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a Peruvian wept in silence, many another sobbed aloud, as José Santos Chocano, "The Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
...first Bolivian constitution, giving its president a life term and the right of appointing his own successor. Often accused, even by his friend and colleague Santander, of desiring absolute power for himself, he was sustained in perpetual office until his death (1830, aged 47) by the votes of his countrymen. He lavished nine-tenths of a fortune enormous for its day upon Latin American liberty, encouraged nationalism, arts, science. Few cities from Chile to Mexico are without his statue...
American visitors thumbed through their catalogs for names of their countrymen, to see what they had been learning from the Continental masters. One of the first pieces they paused before was a bronze "Aphrodite" by Sculptor Rudolph Evans, the young man from the Corcoran Gallery in Washington whose "Golden Hour" won him a medal and fame at the salon of 1914 and now reposes, a radiant study of adolescent gravity, in a specially lighted domed room at the home of Banker Frank A. Vanderlip...
...rate the gracious advice of the Prince to his former countrymen ought not to be lost upon the world. If royalty have been degraded to figureheads, they may yet serve as spectacular and useful ornaments. If he continues to pay the melting pot the compliment of understanding, the Prince will likely capture a public usually crudely sportive where crowned heads are concerned...
...chest?the Asquithians being relatively without campaign funds?countered at once last week by releasing a letter to Lord Oxford and Asquith in which he referred to the latter's "provocative" communication to himself, defended his own strike-time conduct as "for what I considered the good of my countrymen," and concluded by demanding: "If there has to be another schism in the Liberal party, one would like to know what it is about...