Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...
...Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July...
...cordiality of Secretary Mellon's greeting to M. Caillaux, became angry, excited and somewhat defiant as the rejection of the initial French debt proposals became known. Phrases flew: "France bloodless, the U. S. stuffed with food . . . refuse to discuss the Mellon memorandum . . . Frenchmen slaves for 62 years ... the feudal U. S. mentality . . . 'virtuous' President Coolidge ... if M. Caillaux must return without an agreement all parties will approve...
...ancient fame of this cheese [Roquefort]. Pliny the Elder and Julius Caesar extolled its fame as one of the best products of the Gauls. It resisted all invasions, inasmuch as, in the Dark Ages, charters included Roquefort cheeses in the tributes to be annually contributed to the stores of feudal lords. Other charters of Charles VI and VII and letters patent of Francis I and Louis XIII solemnly ruled that Roquefort cheese must be made with sheep's milk and aged in the natural grottos of Roquefort...
Georgia pastors now believe that the institution of consecrated land will be adopted in every state. Whether miraculous or not, the institution of the Lord's acre stabilizes church finances and is in accord with Jewish traditions dating from Abraham and the Roman Catholic practice in feudal days...