Word: martially
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...these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained for. In a desperate attempt to seize the privately-controlled laboratory where the world's most powerful poison gas is stored, the Lord Paramount, his lieutenants and England itself, are all blown...
...drone of the big plane was heard above Bucharest airdrome, by then brilliantly floodlighted. An army corps and the Prime Minister were at hand. To be ready for all emergencies Bucharest had been placed under what amounted to martial law with General Cenrik Cihoski temporarily appointed Governor of the Capital. Amid much obsequious bowing the Hohenzollern entered a limousine, was driven swiftly to Cotroceni Palace...
...Munich, Dr. Heinrich Held, Bavarian Prime Minister, declared martial law in Germersheim...
Courts functioning under martial law at Sholapur jailed wholesale those guilty of promoting swaraj, for terms up to ten years...
Late next day, Governor Moody denied having told Capt. Hamer to hold his fire. He proclaimed martial law, sent more militiamen, restored order. He was interviewed on the telephone from 5,000 mi. away by a London Daily Mail reporter who exclaimed: "Well, well! Is this a common occurrence in Texas? . . . thanks and cheerio...