Word: feudality
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...Land would be expropriated by the State, leased according to modified feudal arrangements...
What prevented liberal Englishmen and Americans from thinking Chesterton was right was, for one thing, a disagreement over what constitutes civilization. To Chesterton, Poland was an outpost of civilization because it was a Catholic nation. To the liberal Western mind, Poland seemed a backward and feudal country, greatly inferior in efficient industrial plant and social services-two modern criteria of civilization-even to Nazi Germany. To those who like to dispose of other people's affairs by logic alone, the logical conclusion should have been that it did Poland good last autumn to be taken over and "organized...
...they presume that much may be intimately perceived, among its inhabitants, that tell the whole fate and meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend...
...wrote a full-page tribute to the Times-Star management from their employes. Said he: "We are proud to be an integral part, however small or large, of an institution . . . where there is noblesse oblige on the part of the master and fealty on the part of the man. Feudal the Times-Star may be, but its feudalism needs no apologist. . . . Without humility, we are grateful for the fine conditions that surround...
...years before Mitsumasa was born Japan was suddenly turned from a feudal to a capitalistic state. The elder Yonai, given an inadequate political job, cracked up and deserted his family when Mitsumasa...