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Word: revolutionize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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El Libertador, South America's George Washington, was 100 years dead last week. Officials of a dozen nations united to do him honor. Messages were sent, editorials published, statues unveiled and holidays declared. Only the fact that three of the six nations which he founded have suffered either revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bolivar Day | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Germany: For the first time since the War, foreign consuls in socialistic Hamburg wore diplomatic uniforms at a Bolivar ceremony in the Rathaus, were told that similar ceremonies were going on at the same time in Paris, Rome, Brussels. Spain. With an insidious revolution gnawing at his throne, all Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bolivar Day | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Wrong Horse No. 2 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

U. S. Minister to Guatemala is Sheldon Whitehouse, an urbane gentleman with naturally wavy hair and a cultivated voice (he is one of the extremely few U. S. diplomatists who have been schooled at Eton). Onetime private secretary of the late great Whitelaw Reid, he married the daughter of Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Wrong Horse No. 2 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Before the War most typical of the gay luxuriance of Moscow was Yar's famed restaurant where gypsies sang and danced. A favorite at Yar's was Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gypsy Singer | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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