Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...present so short as hardly to fulfill their purpose and do not allow boys living at a distance to go home if their conscience or their dean prohibits travelling time. Perhaps Thanksgiving Day might remain as an old Puritan tradition, but since Columbus Day, Armistice Day, or Patriot's Day are now little more than an occasion for speech-making, they hardly seem legitimate excuses for a holiday, considering the dislocation they create...
With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...
...Literally. Minister Maginot is not only a super-patriot but an expert swordsman...
...famed type of the Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely harsh and colorful...
...Patriot's Progress is the story of John Bullock, young London clerk who joined up soon after war was declared, to fight for King & Country. In graphic, impressionistic, sometimes onomatopoetic prose, Author Williamson tells what happened to Private Bullock, from his raptured enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain to the attack beyond Ypres in 1917 when a shell left him with only one more leg to give his King & Country. "Then his heart instead of finishing its beat and pausing to beat again swelled out its beat into an ear-bursting agony and great lurid light that leapt...