Word: edict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jean Anouilh by Lewis Galantiere; produced by Katharine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller) was born of the Nazi occupation of Paris. Playwright Anouilh (pronounced Ahn-oo-ee) reworked the famed Antigone of Sophocles with a furtive and topical eye: Antigone's defiance of King Creon's edict that her brother Polynices' body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs. Not only must his Antigone hearten the French, but his Creon must not offend the Germans...
...written by Sophocles, the play tells the story of Oedipus' daughter Antigone, whose two brothers kill each other in a quarrel over who shall succeed their dead father. When Creon, Antigone's uncle, takes the throne, he issues his edict that one of the brothers must lie unburied, as a lesson that the law must be enforced. Protesting this indignity, Antigone twice attempts to bury the body. Her efforts fail, she is caught and condemned to death, finally commits suicide...
...workers took alarm over a rumor that the company would not pay them at all. In November, led by the powerful new Shanghai General Union, they staged a protest. Since strikes and lockouts are barred by municipal edict, the workers kept the trams running but collected no fares.* Free riding went on for two and a half days. Then the workers blandly said they were sorry, blandly resumed normal collections...
...headlines of rival papers played a game of 'tis-'tain't. One day last week Hearst's New York Journal-American proclaimed: SAY HULL EDICT DECIDED JAPS
...National Labor Relations Board, in a decision involving the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., will rule on recognition of the foremen's union, may well give Lewis as much by edict as he could gain by strike...