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Later, Coke turned again defiant. The exasperated James retaliated, first by kicking Coke upstairs and creating him Lord Chief Justice of England, second by dismissing him altogether from the bench. It was useless. The "masterful, masterless" Coke merely returned to the House of Commons, where his shrewd advice created endless trouble for James. When Commons suggested that James be petitioned for liberty of speech and action, cagey Edward Coke pointed out to the members the potentially fatal error of begging for something that was already theirs by right of law. "Take heed," he said, "that we lose not our liberties...
...Announcer (Actor Welles) told the radio audience: that the world has watched with wonder for three days this city wherein a newly dead woman has thrice come from her tomb. Emerging for the fourth time the woman speaks, warns the assembled crowd that "the city of masterless men will take a master." Soon a runner comes through the crowd with word that the Conqueror has landed on the nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what...
...head and pricked his ears. This was Argos whom Odysseus had bred but never worked, because he left for Ilium too soon. On a time the young fellows used to take him out to course the wild goats, the deer, the hares: but now ?he lay derelict and masterless on the dung-heap before the gates, on the deep bed of mule-droppings and cow-dung which collected there till the serfs of Odysseus had time to carry it off for manuring his broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks. Yet the instant Odysseus...
...feudal England every man had a master?peasant, noble and monarch; the masterless man was almost an outlaw and found every man's hand against...
Winston Spencer Churchill, "Winnie," is a masterless man in English politics. Once he was Conservative, but he became a Liberal 20 years ago because of Chamberlain's free trade program; he was a Liberal until this year, when he decided to run for Parliament on a Conservative platform. He wanted to stand in the Abbey Division of Westminster. The Conservative caucus said: "First you must let us be your master; consent to that and you must run for office only when and where we choose." "Winnie," who had just been defeated in the December election on a Liberal ticket, said...