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Word: obey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klansmen attention: Remember your solemn oath to obey all edicts, mandates, rulings, and instructions of the imperial wizards. It is the order of the imperial wizard that all klansmen work faithfully for the nomination of our brother klansman, Major Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...suggest to ignorant bigotry that candles lighted by Jews obey the same natural laws as do those lighted by people of other sects? That Jewish noses are not necessarily rheumy noses? That though a Jew be prosperous, he can yet celebrate his Holy Day without incongruity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Black Shirts, you must obey the orders of the chief, who alone has the right to judge and to indicate the line of conduct. We offer to him who resists intrepidly this new proof of our unlimited devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bomb | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Sunday ran Saturday a close second for "death day." Friday was third and Tuesday safest of all. Said the Scientific American: "If every one would cease 'jay-walking,' if children would keep off the roadways and streets, if young men would pet in parlors and drivers would obey the Eighteenth Amendment* a large percentage of our automobile accidents could be avoided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Motor Crashes | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by sleeping near horses and to acquire respect for the Chinese puzzle that is French army discipline. It just happened that he could punch, ride, shoot, drill, sleep, spy, drink, disguise, obey, command and love-his-country better than any one else in that camp, and that his sense of humor had been developed on the famed playing-fields of Eton. So he was soon promoted to posts of great importance, intriguing with desert tribes across the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Books | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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