Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share the lessons given to Princess Mary at Buckingham Palace. It was felt certain, even in well- informed Court circles, that the Prince of Wales would ultimately propose to Lady Rachel. Once again the bubble of speculation has been pricked; nothing remains now but the advent of that tiresome edict, issued periodically by the Dowagers of London, as to whom the Prince will marry...
When Yale was losing a system, Harvard was gaining one to which it has clung with vigorous tenacity ever since. But in the eyes of the sporting critics it is now Harvard's turn to crumble. The edict comes from the press writers of the metropolis that the "Haughton system" is obsolete and must be completely revamped if it is to hold its place among the football powers. The old deceptive style of playing; when the right halfback carried the ball around the right end and the opposing team thought the left halfback was carrying it around the left...
...sustain. Law and Order, Liberty, and the Constitution have always found staunch support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro reconstruction of the language thruout the land. What matters while the old stock lasts...
...fact has evidently been overlooked, and it leaves room for a theory which has been borne out by our discoveries here. That fact is the clause "by the people" in the edict banning the alphabet. Just what did that phrase mean to the Incas? It will be remembered that the Circle of the Elders at the university were also priests of the Sun-god. Clearly, then, what was written on the burdock by members of their sacred caste could not be displeasing to the god, and did not need to be destroyed, to ward off evil, as did the popular...
...Order", that famous precept which swept Calvin Coolidge from the office of a well-known politician to the vice-presidency of a great world power, is tottering on the edge of a precipice. When the edict was first issued from beneath the golden dome on Beacon Hill the populace rose as one man to back up their popular leader; and for nearly three years "Law and Order" has been a sort of sub-motto for the Commonwealth...