Word: revoltings
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JOHN BROWN. Like Burr, a man of many schemes, most of them failures; unlike Burr, intent on one end?believing that he had a divine mission. Kindly to animals, kindly to his family, but dominating both and willing to sacrifice them for his purpose, he stirred up a revolt apparently not knowing exactly how he was to succeed, and died on the scaffold believing he was serving his cause...
...sultry air before a thunderstorm broods over the book- an air of suppressed, excruciated passion. Not passion in the Titivating Stories sense, there is the passion of the human mind for perfection as well-passion for material things. wealth, a house, even Egyptology- and incessantly the passion of human revolt against the material bonds that hold humanity to the clay. The ending is inconclusive, as in most such struggles-the material characters get their material desires-the less commonplace agonists are liberated after a fashion, in odd ways that do not seem to bring them much of what we commonly...
UTAH: Chief Old Posey (who led a recent revolt of the Piute Indians, which was quelled) was discovered dead in a cave where he had crawled, wounded...
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: General Emilo Aguinaldo, who 24 years ago led the Filipino revolutionists and later took an oath of allegiance to the United States, is organizing an association of veterans of his revolt...
...Youth" movement, which is widespread in Germany and is extending its influence to the rest of Europe and to America, is a revolt against intellectual complacence, and self-satisfied smugness. It has resulted in Germany in the "Wander-lovers", bands of young people who are walking about seeing their country at first hand, and interesting themselves in everything. In America, its evidences are chiefly oratory, intercollegiate conferences, and the springing up all over the land of student discussion societies and publications devoted to criticism. Apparently the revolution that Sir James Barrie advocated of Youth against its Betters has finally made...