Word: lese
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...this ancient act of lese majesty, Dame Edith took pen in blue-veined hand, rattled her Tibetan bracelets and administered a crushing snub to Villiers David. Wrote she: "I am surprised that after your insolent references to myself, Sir Osbert and Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell [her younger brother] made in verse some years ago, you should have the impudence to invite me to waste my time at your show...
...which had four performances. It is not the best Shaw, but it is the only full-length play he wrote about America and the first of his works to be staged in this country. The play begins as a romantic melodrama, but suddenly turns into a witty farce of lese-majeste in the last...
Freshmen Also Lese...
...Halle's statement, marked by the Annotator: "Henry borne at Monmouth shall small tyme reigne and muche get, & Henry born at Wyndsore shall long reigne and all lese . .." Henry VI: "Henry born at Monmouth shall win all/ And Henry born at Windsor lose...
...Marine Corporal Frank Farkas painted the word lemon on the side of his secondhand sedan after it suffered repeated breakdowns, was promptly arrested by Washington, D.C. police and found guilty of an American form of lese majesty under a local regulation which forbids displays which "ridicule" the make of an automobile...