Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Virginia, "the old dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
Briefly, the Delegates postulated for Croatia-Dalmatia what amounts to "dominion status...
...known that Winnipeg suited him. A good town for a breakfast-food factory. No remittance-man he; his accent was not that of an Englishman, but of a U. S. Southerner. His appearance was not that of an Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they had begun, the man's wanderings ceased. The police had some questions to ask him. The most important question was, "Are you Clinton S. Carnes?" When...
Meanwhile Prime Minister Hertzog continued his labors in Pretoria, scouting the idea that a "republic" could have greater practical freedom than have all British "dominions." To prove his point he read the famed definition of "dominion status," which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain has declared "destined to become historic" (TIME...
...Dyke issued a smashing reply to Dr. Walker: "May a humble Presbyterian, who has himself held the honorable office of Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...