Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of thing. A king, even a little mouselike man like King George, is not only a decorative but a useful piece of furniture. His personal inconsequence is relieved by gold braid, and medals; he is an artist at laying cornerstones and opening exhibitions, leaving the Prime Minister to govern. He does not have to reward Babbits with the use of the Marines; he can make them peers with opposition from none but the House of Lords--a simpler and cheaper process. And Americans are great royalty lovers. They will greet a queen or a crown prince almost as effusively...
...Babbitt got up to speak, he roundly flayed the Fergusons. Then rose Mr. Moody. He spoke for less than five minutes. ". . . I ask, as did the Hebrew of old, that God give me now knowledge and wisdom to come in and go out before this people; for who can govern this people that is become so great...
...grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued by the U. S. Govern-ment for a thousand times the amount of their original invest- ment...
...most conclusive evidence that arms and munitions in large quantities have been on several occasions since August, 1926, shipped to the revolutionists in Nicaragua. Boats car- rying the munitions have been fitted out in Mexican ports, and some of the munitions bear evidence of having belonged to the Mexican govern- ment...
Pronouncements. Turncoat Oswald Mosley, a Conservative M. P. four years ago, then an Independent, now a Laborite, said: "The result shows that the [Baldwin Conservative] government has entirely lost the confidence of the country and has now no mandate to govern...