Word: oaths
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...Cabinet, beside itself with excitement, then chanted in chorus to the Realmleader the oath of blind obedience to Adolf Hitler, now taken by every German in the State's employ and by millions of others...
...happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell of one of Wagner's convenient potions, Siegfried has tricked her, given her to another. A great Brünnhilde is spine-chilling when she brands the hero as a traitor, swears it by an oath on a spear and then helps plot his death. And at the end she must become a goddess again. Though high passages are long and grueling, a few rare interpreters have made them seem incidental to Brünnhilde's grief, her realization of tragedy as she majestically orders...
...quite achieved. Vocally she was a match for Wagner's mighty orchestra. Dramatically she was the "heroic female figure" that Wagner imagined. Those who heard her have never forgotten the horror in her voice when she turned on Siegfried, the fury she became when she swore the piercing oath on the spear...
...Washington high-powered Congressional munitions snoops promptly scoffed and sneered at the new Royal Commission because it is not empowered to extract testimony under oath or to rifle the files of His Majesty's Government. Said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald: "We felt it would be a great mistake to assume, by giving special powers to the commission, that it would have any difficulty in getting witnesses and evidence. But we mean to give it full support in the discharge of its duties...
...custom, not observed in England, the Premier then traditionally symbolized the Legislature's sovereign rights by ignoring the Speech from the Throne for 24 hours. To fill in the time, Legislators debated the same cut & dried bill which is never passed, a measure "respecting the administration of the oath of office to persons appointed as justices of the peace...