Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less accomplished countrymen as "snouting yokels." It had been written by an H. L. Mencken, aged 20, reporter on the Baltimore Morning Herald; a lad who had informed the Youth's Companion that he contemplated working up a series of boys' stories; a lad who three years afterwards had the city editor's desk on his newspaper...
...oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics, although by no means altogether dutifully so, and it would be politic to ignore last spring's imbroglio with the Vatican (see TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.) which has gradually faded...
...Briand spoke: "Never has a government under my leadership found itself facing such redoubtable circumstances. . . . The Chamber has in its hands the destiny of the Nation. ... To demand such inflation and such taxation as is now necessary is to put a great responsibility upon you. . . . But I honor my countrymen in thinking that they will thank you, their representatives, if you save the country in this perilous hornby voting the national sacrifices which I now demand...
...quell these disturbances, which included the burning of Italian flags, attacks on Italian consulates and some scattered plundering of Italian-owned shops. Foreign Minister Nintchitch of Yugo-Slavia promptly despatched a note of apology to the Italian Government, and was reviled as a "traitor" by many of his countrymen for so doing. The incident appeared closed with the alleged arrival at Belgrade of an Italian note in which the original Fascist outbreak at Trieste was "deplored" and the Yugo-Slavian apology accepted...
...easy for Englishmen and Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century," continued Professor Walz, "to do justice to this phenomenon in the world of letters; it had been difficult for Goethe's own countrymen. Whatever has been urged against Goethe,--his supposed lack of moralty, his irreligious, his coldness and selfishness, his disregard of others, his inconstancy,--you may find it all in the works of Borne and Wolfgang Menxel and in other German writers preceding them...