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Word: command (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their golden expedition. Robert is not content with merely this adventure; in making pretty passes at the hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then turns to a peaceful island and its occupants set up their communistic colony. The father of the heroine, a sly shipowner, when he sees French ships sailing by, attempts to betray his son-in-law's renegade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...command, really a prohibition, forbade Prince George to fly from Santa Barbara to Hollywood. So Prince George motored to Hollywood and famed Douglas and Mary fed him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Monarchisms | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...interpreting Il Duce's silence as a command, put 14 stiletto strokes into the assailant, one Anteo Zamboni, and pummeled his remains into a pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anarchical Communists | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...command from His Majesty King Amanullah, a new standard rose and streamed aloft. It was striped vertically black, red, green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Red for Independence! | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Great & Fake Oath | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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