Word: feudality
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When famed Elizabeth, alleged virgin queen, used to tour her realm, feudal lords would nearly bankrupt themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George...
From Hankow, Michael Markovitch Borodin communicated frantically with Moscow and Soviet Russian representatives in Peking and Shanghai. Soon "demands" were made by the Soviet Government upon the great Northern War Lord Chang Tsolin, theoretically the feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable...
...dawn of Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such...
...Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
...Baltic countries. The air becomes heavy with dreams. Sometimes the nobility roam abroad troubled or sleep in peace under the stars, like peasants. They feel a change upon their world which philosophers say is more than the passing of the seasons. A twilight is falling, some say, upon the feudal order of things...