Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentimental and superstitious demands for the exile of Claudia are brought to Cardinal Madruzzo, he exclaims in amazement and scorn: "I supposed that the people desired a material diminution of taxes, a free distribution of food. ... Go and tell them that Emanuel Madruzzo does not obey the orders...
...does so at an inopportune moment. Brook has been forbidden by Caleb to dance and love Tony, foreigner, Catholic. But Naomi, frantic lest Brook miss the great love she herself had known so fleetingly, tells Brook why she need not obey her "father." In a frenzy of dutiful adolescent loyalty to this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later...
Major Mario de Bernardi, hero of the 1926 Schneider Cup race, when Italy wrested the trophy from the U. S., was the first to obey Mussolini's command. Already the holder of the seaplane speed record, he went up last March and averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, beating his own record by more than 20 miles (TIME, April...
...classified advertising lineage. It is devoted to the cause of good Republicanism and Mr. Gannett will not interfere. He reassures the doubtful: "It is my belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...
...will not", and the vague possibilities of a dark-horse third term are checked, once for all. And is it not better so? All the squirming and writhing of the politicians could mean but one thing; that, though they knew the voters' choice, they did not wish to obey it; that if holes were not already there, through which the machine men might slip, they would dig them. Their chance is gone now, and the part is able to present to the public, without further delay, Nominee Hoover...