Word: dominione
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...afternoon bedight as a Field Marshal, he motored to Victoria Station. There amid jostling notables waited "The Man From Tasmania." famed Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia who has restored the finances of that spendthrift dominion...
...Hepburn tried to curry favor with Catholics by promising money from Ontario's educational funds to aid their parochial schools. Since 41% of all Canadians are Catholics, this was considered a smart opening move by Ontario's Liberal "Mitch"' in his game to oust and succeed Dominion Liberal Leader William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...rise to place an objection before the meeting," cried a punctilious Canadian retailer. In shoe shops across the Dominion we have salespeople guilty of a worse offense in that they chew gum while waiting upon customers...
...retrace your steps and cross over into the Old Dominion, you will immediately note the squalor and poor-ness of the land. And, if you are a "nice, bright young man," you will realize what slavery meant to the South, and what the North's victory meant. You are astounded to find yourself sympathizing with the South, and thinking of Karl Marx's phrase, "the expropriation of the expropriators...
...surplus energies. The proper business for a king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium, a buffer state, was in no position to carve out a dominion in Africa. Leopold worked well in twilight zones; he knew how to make weakness into strength when he had strong neighbors who were jealous of each other. In the end he possessed himself of the Congo because Bismarck did not want France to get it and because Britain thought Belgium would...