Word: majest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greeks. All this was news to most of the assembled Dukes and Duchesses in Balmoral last week, for such scenes have been rigidly kept from the British newspaper-reading and newsreel-viewing public by a form of British self-censorship which in the circumstances is lèse majest...
...awakening came at the border where waited Nazi border police. No Nazi is permitted to wear a Nazi uniform outside of Germany, but these pious Nazi youths had worn, while genuflecting before Pope Pius, the livery of Adolf Hitler-thus committing a peculiar sort of Nazi lèse-majesté. At the border the returning youths were set upon, their uniforms roughly seized and ropes tied around their Catholic middles in imitation of St. Francis of Assisi. Scattered in the scuffle were Holy Year medals, rosaries, scapulars and prayer leaflets...
...important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed the bullying of Japanese politicians by the Army and Navy, even advised the Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally overrule the General Staffs. To revenge themselves, the patriots dug out Dr. Minobe's "organ theory" and charged him with lèse-majesté against the Emperor. They formed the Organ Theory Destruction League and warned Dr. Minobe they would destroy him unless he recanted. This he refused...