Word: lese
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show amiably bore out the theme of Anglo-American lese majesty. Called "Romeo and Juliet, 1936," it was played in three scenes, in each of which a stepladder served as the balcony. Scene I was between Juliet du Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below...
Government politicians did not want to sacrifice Dr. Minobe, who had only said what they all privately believed, but they did not dare officially deny the official legend that the Emperor is "a super-individual divine human being." Though they declined to charge Dr. Minobe with lese-majeste, the Cabinet did order the Home Minister to suppress Dr. Minobe's two textbooks, Essentials of Constitutional Law and A Course in Constitutional...
...nine chosen to aid Recovery Administrator Johnson. Last week Mr. Moffett was offered a place on the same committee. He wanted to take it. Mr. Teagle wanted him to refuse. Mr. Moffett's argument: the offered appointment was virtually a command from the President which it would be lese majeste to decline. Mr. Teagle's argument: two Standard Oil men on one committee would be too many. Meeting one morning in the Carlton Hotel in Washington Mr. Teagle put to Mr. Moffett an ultimatum: refuse the appointment or quit Standard...
...school belles. On the opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...
...Rumania and of our King himself," argued counsel for the defense. "Is it not significant that after his speech he was not arrested but was invited to the Royal Palace? He there repeated to King Carol his well meant admonitions, now made the basis of a charge of lese majeste...