Word: bidden
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...Senator into voting for the measure, General Zupelli related an extremely tall yarn. Said he: "Freemasonry strikes at the root of military discipline. . . . There was a case during the Tripolitan war in which the Commander in Chief was obliged to remit the punishment of a lieutenant because he was bidden to do so by his aide who, though his inferior in military rank, was his superior in Masonic rank...
...Jersey. The business was the selection of a new Chairman to fill the place of the late A. C. Bedford. Who that Chairman was to be had already of course been decided upon, but not until the vote had been duly taken could the waiting press be bidden to announce that George H. Jones...
...Balmoral Castle, where the late Queen Victoria was wont to indulge a "homespun taste for Scotland," journeyed British royalty to spend the weekend. Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball. The King's own piper, Major Forsyth, was in attendance; and, "as an interested spectator," came the Archbishop of York...
...Community Service and richly endowed, so that their previous functions became almost incidental. Wayside shrines, often of a rich and peculiar beauty, everywhere adorned the countryside and added to the general welfare by serving as gasoline filling-stations. The cult strongly emphasized reverence to local saints, who were all bidden by their Order to practice the trades either of grocer or of druggist; and every public conveyance bore testimony to the humble but influential ministering angels. This spiritual movement finally disposed of the economic man and even made some progress toward suppressing the economic housewife. Its importance...
...Congress fallen into parsimonious times. Coolidge, the economical, reigns over the flowing waters and rich lands of our country. Congress is bidden reform itself. A sign of this is a new form of Public Buildings Bill...