Word: edicted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week the Governor was "ready to shoot." He issued an executive order closing down 3,106 Oklahoma oil wells and proclaimed martial law for 50 ft. around each. Guardsmen were called out to enforce with shot & shell, if necessary, the Murray edict...
...knees (a few months before Columbus sighted America) pious Queen Isabella implored the blessing of Heaven for a royal edict by which King Ferdinand: 1) banished all Jews and other heretics from Spain; 2) decreed that his remaining subjects must actively practice the Catholic religion...
...Vadis? started in 1913 a fashion for historical spectacles. Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote and directed Cabria. But since 1916 native Italian cinemas have deteriorated. Premier Mussolini has his private theatre, equipped for talkies. For a while he banned all cinemas in foreign tongues. Later he changed this edict, permitting foreign talk if the picture was musical comedy or operetta...
...that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...
...recent edict of Palaeopitus, the student governing body at Dartmouth, has relegated all Freshmen restrictions to the limbo of the graduates' memory, where, no doubt, it will flourish for many years to come. Only one relic of school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into...