Word: disobeyance
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Winfield Scott first attracted public attention as a major general when he strongly criticized General Andrew Jackson. The hotheaded Jackson challenged him to a duel, but Scott declined. In 1828, he was back in the public eye when he was relieved of his command after repeatedly threatening to disobey the orders of the general in chief, Alexander Macomb. Despite his many squabbles and reprimands, Scott himself became general in chief in 1841. True to form, he clashed with Secretary of War William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place...
Last week Mexico City film distributors, bent on reviving Viva Villa, ran into some new objections. Government censor Salvador Romero balked above all at one scene showing Villa disobeying a superior officer and capturing a town to oblige a U.S. newsman who has written the story in advance. "An abuse of history," cried Romero angrily. "Villa is not a national hero, but he was a soldier and would not disobey orders." The showing was banned...
...Victorianism. Against Mrs. Grundy's boned corset it set the languid flow of an Aubrey Beardsley tunic. It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...
Authority for preliminary scheduling rests with this committee, but members found that orders from the two top men in College affairs were orders they could not disobey...
Whether John Lewis actually meant his miners to go back, only Lewis could say, and the cat had his tongue. But of the facts of the situation there was no doubt. As his miners continued to disobey him, the better his bargaining position-if not his legal position-had become...