Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Mexico's soil seems a more fertile field for the seeds of revolution than that of any other country. Revolts and counter-revolts, executions and dictatorships, nowhere else are either so virulent or so persistent. Only through a rule of iron was Diaz able to maintain order, and at his policy of allowing foreigners to exploit Mexican resources the natives surged with discontent. The Mexican peon is like the dog in the manger; although he cannot govern himself, he will not long tolerate another's doing it; although he himself can not exploit the country's mineral wealth...
...Princess Boston Evening Transcript beat her beast, she flung in despair her arms upward to an austere Puritanic diety who made no answering sign. She was abandoned of all the world. She must rescue herself. Cautiously and with infinite trembling she descended the iron stairs; stealthily she opened the little tower door. She tiptoed past the ogre. He turned and looked upon her. In an instant he might rend her. The poor princess stood transfixed with terror. "And what is your name, old lady?" he asked...