Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While loss of citizenship does not put a person outside the law, as in feudal times when he was placed "outside the King's peace," such removal does carry a stigma. As such it is similar to punishments for crimes...
...According to my opinion, in our present stage of development . . . this would look just as if somebody had constructed a new automobile and then had it drawn with horses . . . Their democracy does not suit us; it is an obsolete democracy, which, however good it was in coming after the feudal system, has outlived itself...
Soap Lord McElroy, who speaks feudalistically of the "ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media...
...American mother had fought and won a hard genealogical battle to establish their right to the 635-year-old family title, Strabolgi seemed to wish they had lost. To the dismay of his fellow peers, he once snorted: "The House of Lords . . . is a picturesque survival of the feudal system . . . out of tune with the modern world . . . Better let it go the way of the divine right of kings...
During the Dark Ages, Fortuna's temples were looted down to their bones. Even their marble facings were carted away for building material. Gradually the town of Palestrina and the feudal stronghold of the Colonna family spread over the massive remains, effectively hiding them from archeologists. In 1944, Allied bombings peeled away the medieval buildings. When the war ended, Palestrina was a wreck, but the lower parts of Fortuna's temple lay almost undamaged under heaps of rubble...