Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York will turn out with all the fireboats and miles of paper streamers to greet him. That most skilled of welcomers, Mayor Walker, will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason...
That famous hero of poetry, Abdul, the Bul-bul Emir, would be ashamed of his countrymen if he could, know the present sad condition of Turkish manhood. When the movies were introduced into Turkey a comparatively short time ago the promoters of the new form of amusement copied the methods in use in America in their production, and evidently designed their theaters after American models. But they failed to consider the requirements of their public. When the tired business men of that city invaded the new sources of entertainment they found to their dismay that seats designed for athletic citizens...
When Col. Lindbergh garlanded the Caribbean with Good Will, he especially expected and especially received a felicitous reception in Puerto Rico, the brick-shaped, easternmost member of the Greater Antilles. There he landed among fellow countrymen. Puerto Ricans have been, by act of Congress in 1917 or by act of God (birth) since then, citizens...
There at the State Theatre they saw a rollicking performance of Peer Gynt (1867), the play which takes its name from a hero who typifies the convivial weaknesses which Ibsen thought that he detected in many of his countrymen...
...millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute for him "posterity," have already witnessed a greater number of showings of each of his major plays than the sum total of productions of Abie's Irish Rose...