Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uneasy but resolute group of men, scrambling by fair means or otherwise to fortify their power. Perhaps the Government's "military sport camps" will entice young voters away from the "private armies" already maintained by Germany's Fascists, Socialists and Steel Helmets. Perhaps Germans will obey for a while longer the absolute will of Paul von Hindenburg who celebrates his 85th birthday next fortnight. Commented Karl H. von Wiegand, No. 1 German Hearstman: "There is one man in Germany who, like Gandhi, wants nothing for himself but everything for his country: Hindenburg...
With the opening of Russian schools for the autumn term, Soviet pupils face frequent quizzes, periodic examinations and they must obey their teachers. Until now teachers in the Soviet Union have been at the mercy of the "school soviet" (i. e. their pupils...
Alien Corn by Sidney Howard and The Rape of Lucrece by Andre Obey; with Katharine Cornell...
...onetime King Alfonso of Spain. On the day that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel's diseased glottis continued to swell & swell until it blocked his windpipe, choked him to death...
Said Citizen Smart, bowing and jingling his medals, "As a soldier I will obey the edict of the court...