Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lash", Richard "Barthelmess vehicle, and attempt is made to re-create the conditions that existed in California in 1846 when that Mexican territory was annexed to the United States. The plot is concerned with the efforts of an old feudal family to withstand the introduction of Americans and their ways into their set and radically different mode of life. Barthelmess, as the young Mexican of noble birth, turns outlaw as the result of a beating he receives at the hands of a government official, and roams the countryside trying to preserve his ancestral ranch, and indigenous qualities of his people...
...final feudal touch marked her passing. Sitting in the locomotive cab, his hand on the throttle, was the Duke of Saragossa, Grandee of Spain, whose hereditary right it is to drive the locomotive of the Queen's train. Earlier in the morning he had rushed to the Madrid North Station, thinking that the Royal train would leave from there and had been roundly hooted by Republican youths. At the Escorial he jangled his bell and opened the throttle in dignified silence...
...Reorganization of the Feudal State," Professor Usher, Wldener...
...Mongol khans beat us. Then the Turkish begs beat us; then the Swedish feudal lords and then the Polish aristocrats. Then the Anglo-French capitalists beat us and the Japanese barons beat...
...reference to the distinction between the "Native States," each ruled by a feudatory prince like the speaker, and "British India," ruled directly by the Viceroy. The latter is a political sea in which the former are feudal islands...