Word: feudality
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...potted eleven birds the first morning and shot well above the average of his party every day. Once more, in spite of predictions that the international polo and America's Cup races would lure Englishmen away, and the depressed stockmarket keep Americans at home, fires blazed high in feudal halls rented for the season. Once more beaters in a semicircle drove toward the blinds; once more, amid smells of gunpowder and bog myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know...
...National Revolutionary Party of Mexico, the Party which includes the political group in power since Carranza (1914-20), has maintained its popularity since by one policy: Agrarianism, the breaking down of Mexico's great feudal estates, the gift of free land to Mexican peasants. Mexicans were as startled last week to hear ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles urge the temporary abandonment of Agrarianism as U. S. citizens would be should Calvin Coolidge turn Free Trader...
Engaged. Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Kikuko Tokugawa, granddaughter of the last of the Shoguns (feudal lords); at Tokyo...
...Friday, December 6, he will discuss "The feudal period and its outcome; trade with Ethiopia". The sixth lecture, the following Tuesday, will cover "The Egyptian new empire" and "The Egyptianization of Ethiopia". The series of lectures will be concluded on Friday, December 13, with a discussion of the "Independent Monarchy of Ethiopia...
...famed 16th Century feudal Lord, Oda Xobunaga, dictated even to the Shoguns (who had made puppets of the Emperors...