Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure rendezvous in Paris the meeting will take replace. 'No blare of trumpets, no strains of martial music, no pomp and circumstance worthy of the Emperor of the Russians will mark the debut of Cyril into the political whirl of Europe. That is all for the future. The Prefect of Police has ordered out no extra details of gendarmes to handle the crowds. The hotels have created to tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty...
...stupid courage is revived from the dust of the dramatic past. General Primo De Rivera, appropriating the part of King John, remains in Spain to reap the benefits of domestic power, and sends his turbulent rivals a-tourneying with the swarthy Saladdins of the Sahara, with the possibility of martial glory and the certainty of political annihilation. He prays that his noisy King Richards may not return to plague him in his uncertain dominion over the restless liberals of Spain. He has even adopted the knightly tradition of conquering an enemy by joining forces with him: Raisull, a chieftain whom...
...Vice Consul at Teheran, Persian capital (TIME, July 28), . the populace had been filled with fearful forebodings. The murder, which was called by the Setareh Iran, Teheran journal, a "bloody stain on a page of glorious history," was responsible, apart from its international complexion, for a proclamation of martial law, the resignations of Premier Reza Khan's colleagues, a plethora of arrests. Persians knew someone must die for a foul crime...
...courts-martial of the ringleaders of the recent abortive mutiny in the Philippine Scouts (TIME, July 21) were concluded...
...severe, and that, all in all, it would be better to go to drill. To these persuasions all but some 206 yielded. The obdurate ones, believing firmly in collective bargaining, refused to budge. For the sake of ammunition and humanity they were not shot. Plans were made to court-martial those who had been active in insubordination and to discharge the rest "without honor...