Word: patriotes
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...Minister Baldwin to speak at a dance given for new Conservative voters. When Mr. Smithers arrived, Conservative couples were revolving on the floor to the strains of "Sonny Boy" Suddenly inspired, Mr. Smithers stepped to the platform, asked the bandmaster to repeat the selection. Then-even as the French patriot, Rouget de Lisle, is supposed to have improvised the "Marseillaise"; upon a cafe table top-Mr. Smithers is supposed to have improvised verses, of which the following is a sample: When there are grey skies We don't mind the grey skies, You make them blue, Stanley Boy. Though...
...acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...
...TIME, April 1) of British General Electric Co., Ltd., to restrict a forthcoming stock issue to British citizens exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives of his U. S. shareholders, who own some 60% (nonvoting) of present British...
...each patriot weave his own rags, as the Mahatma does! Boycott the British! Freedom for India...
...Famed bandit-patriot Augusto Calderon Sandino, who is still defying some 3,000 U.S. Marines to capture...