Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Emmanuel: "With a feeling of satisfaction at the connection of one of my own countrymen with the exploit, I desire to offer to Your Majesty my congratulations on the important participation in the Amundsen expedition to the North Pole by an Italian airship and the son of Italy who piloted it. To Commander Nobile's scientific skill is doubtless due, in large measure, the success of this hazardous and historic undertaking...
...Captain Amundsen and his associates in Alaska, I desire to offer to Your Majesty and people of Norway my congratulations on the success which attended the bold undertaking of this hardy and intrepid descendant of the Vikings. It is a matter of great satisfaction that one of my countrymen should have been associated with him in this daring and courageous exploit...
...young gentleman's intention that his countrymen might find in the book much that would take them home from wherever they might be on the earth. So he wrote of the fragrance and spaciousness of an Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like...
...simply noted their frame of mind and thrown his weight behind a movement to supply the people of his race and creed with an institution which, without in turn discriminating against other creeds, will put the children of Israel on an equal educational footing with their Gentile countrymen...
...Amundsen. Despatches did not give his first name, simply calling him "young Amundsen." Had he by chance been named Roald, confusion might have arisen, for "the" Roald Amundsen ? "Old Amundsen"* as the despatches may yet have it ? was at Oslo, Norway, being dined and wined by his countrymen, in company with his fellow explorer, the American Lincoln Ellsworth. They will join Colonel Nobile on the Norge at Spitzbergen and form a joint command...