Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Duke, in glaring contrast to other members of the Royal Family, was an ardent Fascist, orations in his praise came easy. Next week the Chamber will debate, will later approve the Fascist Budget. Next month Italy's equally well-trained Senate will meet, obey...
First work of the new House of Commons last week was to obey a Royal command to elect their Speaker. George V's command was given by proxy in the neighboring House of Lords. Until the Speaker is elected, the Commons cannot sit as the House (with the Mace on the table) but only in committee (with the Mace under the table). In symbolic dumb show Clerk of the House Sir Horace Christian Dawkins began the time-honored mummery by taking his stand (not seat) in front of the empty Speaker's chair. The Clerk asked nomination of a Speaker...
...Edward of Wales (once reported engaged to Lady May) and most of the royal family. Among the bridesmaids: Princess Ingrid of Sweden, small Princess "Lilybet" who thus made her début. Lady May wore the lace veil which Queen Mary and the Countess of Athlone had worn, omitted "obey"-first British royal bride...
...Nature of the Physical World) and Sir James Hopwood Jeans (The Universe Around Us) Russell lays the blame in large part, in no uncertain terms. An almost angry skeptic on the subject of reasoning by deduction, Russell asserts: "Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. ... Jeans's God. like Plato's, is one who has a passion for doing sums, but being a pure mathematician, is quite indifferent as to what the sums are about. . . . Eddington and Jeans contradict each other...
From ship to ship the message passed, from the Rodney to the Nelson, the Hood, the Repulse, the York, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Warspite and Malaya. All eyes were on the Valiant. Would she obey orders? If she did it seemed certain that the rest of the fleet would follow. But on the Valiant boatswains piped themselves blue in the face. The crew remained below decks. Officers had an anxious huddle on the quarterdeck. Conscious that the eyes of Britain were on them, they attempted to hoist anchor themselves. Forward they found two pickets of thick-necked sailors standing guard over...