Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were smuggled into the church service. On top of all this the singers are reported to have indulged in violent swaying of the body, in facial contortions, and in the practice of omitting animal cries when the spirit moved. Things went so for that Pope John 22nd issued an edict in 1322 forbidding all singing in parts and all extemporaneous ornamentation of the music. The written scores were made to conform to the rules, but the singers went on singing what they liked...
Said Citizen Smart, bowing and jingling his medals, "As a soldier I will obey the edict of the court...
...last week the First National Bank of Urbana, Ill. failed. Panic spread. Mayor Reginal Carl Harmon sat up most of the night with the city councilman and economic professors from nearby University of Illinois. At dawn, he issued an edict suspending all business in the town for five days excepting only food, drug stores, public utilities, newspapers. And the following night he said...
...complained that Clubowner Ball was unfairly keeping him in the minor leagues. Tsar Landis considered the case, gave Outfielder Bennett permission to sign a new contract with anyone who wanted his services. Clubowner Ball protested the ruling, carried the case to court. When Judge Walter Lindley upheld the Landis edict, Ball appealed, vowed he would go to the U. S. Supreme Court for a decision...
Grimly ex-King Alfonso studied the specialists' reports. They confirmed what everyone has assumed. Daughters Beatriz and Maria Christina are like their mother. They are "carriers" of the dread blood disease haemophilia. When he had read the reports, Alfonso XIII as Head of the House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...