Word: dominione
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...divine authorship" it is something else again. At Harvard, proud of the freedom that makes liberalism its fetish and unorthodoxy its boast, there would be found but scant support for the latter opinion. It is all the more instructive to note this latest example of the dominion over contemporary minds still retained by the spirit of past centuries...
...that politically everything was all right, and found that his dog was dead. Meanwhile raging Indian editors from Calcutta to Bombay were tearing out the whole front page, setting up in their biggest, blackest, angriest type such screamers as: EARL RUSSELL VOIDS THE VICEROY'S PLEDGE! REFUSES INDIA DOMINION STATUS!! OUR REPRISALS JUSTIFIED !!! In hundreds of irate editorials the Earl-Under-Secretary was quoted as saying: "It will not be possible to grant Dominion Status to India for a long time to come...
...that the nice man who had sat up all night with his dog and was woozy-headed afterward has admitted to saying something which, if it means anything, means exactly what he denies having said-namely that it will be some time before India "can run" (i.e., can receive dominion status...
...Witty and sagacious Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor of the Irish Free State, aptly said: "It is not Irish. It is not free. And it is not a state." It is in effect a dominion of the British Commonwealth of Nations, similar to Canada...
...caused the grave and startling news from India to be received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose of the Indian Nationalist Association of America talked boldly of arming a million Indians for revolution but had no theory...