Word: martially
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...Oklahoma City, capital of the State, the sun rose last week through a yellow murk and set surrounded by weird rainbows. A roaring, shrieking sound filled the heavy air. Fifty city blocks were declared under martial law to prevent a match or spark being struck there. The schools closed. Cause of all this was an oil well just beyond the southeastern city boundary, known as the C. E. Stout No. i. It blew in last week and in eight minutes, seeming well under control, produced 350 bbl. of oil. Then sand came with the driving liquid, cut through the valves...
...vari-shaped headgear (silvered helmets, bear-skins, overseas caps, berets, "ten-gallon" sombreros), 70,000 members of the American Legion last week went to Boston for their annual convention. There they paraded, many with their wives, over a 10-mi. course. From end to end the town blared with martial music, fluttered with flags. Down Tremont Street where in a reviewing stand stood the Secretaries of War and Navy, General John Joseph Pershing, General Henri Joseph Étienne Gouraud (governor of Paris), National Commander O. Lee Bodenhamer of the Legion and the six New England Governors, came floats depicting...
...third time in as many autumns the West Point Corps, 1200 grey-clad men, will march into the Stadium. The presence of America's future officers, if only for an afternoon, should serve a purpose, totally distinct from any display of well-drilled soldiers in time to martial music. Their quiet appearance is an excellent antidote to the ranting extremists so common in this country. The pacifist, alarmed at the rattle of sabres, and the jingoistic militarist, suffering under an acute attack of super-patriotism, both fade rather ridiculously into an obscure wave of asinine jabbering...
Early in the War "F. E." jumped from Ireland to France (as so many hotheads did), won mention in despatches and the rank of Major in the King's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, was recalled to London by Lord Kitchener to advise the Government in ticklish court-martial cases, presently became Chief Censor...
...scene of no revolt last week, the Brazilian Congress met and quietly voted $12,000,000 to put down simultaneous revolutions in the three states of Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes and Parahyba. With 120 ballots favoring and eight opposed, the Congress declared "state of siege" (similar to "martial...