Word: henceforth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinct personality." they declared, "the three Foreign Ministers have decided that every political treaty of each State of the Entente, every unilateral act changing the existing political situation of one of the Entente States toward an outside State, as well as every economic agreement involving important political consequences require henceforth the unanimous consent of the Council of the Entente...
...sixth century donjons of Clovis, a French suspect was looked on as guilty until proved innocent. Hence, by neat Gallic logic, he must be locked up until the state gets around to trying him. Last week French criminal procedure was quietly revolutionized with a new law providing that henceforth all arrested suspects must be provisionally released within five days unless 1) convicted, 2) proved vagrants, or 3) accused of a crime punishable by a term of more than two years. Appalled were police, prosecutors and feudal-minded deputies of the Right; jubilant was the League for the Rights...
Quick to defend his new word for God, quicker to show new Turkey the fate of the oldfashioned, Kemal the Ghazi, "the Victorious One," pounced on Brusa, had 60 of the faithful arrested, ousted the Mufti (ecclesiastical judge) of the Ouglubjami mosque and decreed that henceforth God was Tanri...
...reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched her horses and dragged her carriage through the streets. It takes the competition of a Spanish singer and a paralytic stroke to bring home the crushing truth: that she must henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed is the impersonation which Edith Evans (last seen in The Lady with a Lamp) brings to the part of Irela, a character in which cruelty, vanity and tenderness fight for the upper hand...
Last week the R. A. F. upgrading reached the enlisted ranks. Prouder than any air marshal were the sergeant majors, highest ranking non-commissioned officers, heretofore "one step removed from a gentleman." Henceforth the sergeant major is a warrant officer, to be "addressed by airmen as 'sir' and to be referred to as 'mister...