Word: feudality
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...wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut up, don't be so Hemingway-feudal' "). After two fights ("I said, 'Boys, don't kill anyone in the apartment; it would be awfully messy' "), McNeill was carted off to the hospital for scalp repairs. Diana conceded that possibly her husband was in the right (". . . the defiled nest and all that sort of thing...
...pledge of allegiance is of course simply mumbo jumbo (a relic of Feudal days, when a pledge was supposed to have some magic in it) which can be of no use in this connection; for it would not make out of the disloyal teacher a patriot, nor is it necessary in order to take such a teacher to book when he does violate the constitution. It is simply a waste of effort, time and money, aside from causing friction and consuming energy needed in productive work...
...future, Wright thought, New York will become even more of a village. "You'll see more greenery in 25 years. Grass will grow where least expected, and flowers will bloom in the concrete. Big cities are a hangover from feudal times. Once they were necessary, but they reached and passed their peak, and now you will see them disappearing...
...itself created." He reminded the Right that by coming back into public life in 1947 with his Rally of the French People, he had diminished the danger of Communism, internally and externally, but that the Right, "reassured, hostile to my desire for social action, influenced moreover by the feudal lords of money and press, the impenitent men of Vichy and foreign organizations," had then turned against...
...years as president of the gangster-ridden A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association, beefy, heavy-browed Joseph P. Ryan has been above the law, despite wholesale murder and wholesale theft on the New York piers, and his own grandly feudal way of handling union funds. But the New York Crime Commission's shocking expose of waterfront rackets hit Joe Ryan where it hurt: according to testimony at the hearing, he had dipped into the union till to buy himself Cadillacs, pay golf-club dues, cruise to Guatemala, pay insurance premiums and family funeral expenses. This week Joe Ryan...