Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this leaning toward paganism to such a marked degree that by 1630 the clergy was unequivocally opposed to it. With the production of Moliere's "L'Ecole des Femmes" in 1662, the long-maturing conflict between the clergy and the new literature broke forth. Louis XIV was compelled to banish this comedy for a time from the stage...
...part of a trade between the two countries. This news he communicates to the princess, who is being held under strict surveillance for having disobeyed orders and for having secretly received the Frenchman. Intrigue follows intrigue with rapid action introducing several humorous complications, until finally the prince is banished from Berlin. His friend and adviser, Hotham, decides to disguise him as the awaited Prince of Wales and thus gain access to the rooms of the Queen and the priness. In the last act the Prince of Baireuth is talking to the Queen and the princess, when the King surprises...
...Berlin and is preceded by an ambassador, the Prince of Baireuth discovers that the marriage depends on the acceptance of a commercial treaty. This he communicates to the princess, who is being held under surveillance for having received the French master. Intrigue follows intrigue and the prince is banished from Berlin, but his friend Hotham decides to disguise him as the Prince of Wales and thus gain access to the rooms of the queen and the princess. The king surprises this party and is ready to banish the queen when Hotham explains the hoax. The king then sees that...
...Congress will not propose any amendment of importance--a glance at history and even a hurried view of present conditions surely must banish every doubt about that. It is a generation since the Congress proposed any amendment, and yet there has been ceaseless agitation for amendment...
...amendment can be made so long as so many--I might say rew--as twelve States withhold their endorsement. Should not this pregnant fact alone be sufficient to banish the fears of the timid, resolve the doubts of those who are undecided, and stimulate the courage and arouse the energy of those who would employ the living, instead of invoking ever and only the guidance of the dead...