Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headstrong and invincible, created to kill 400 people. She bucked and danced and cracked. She reduced her passengers to impotent lumps of frightened flesh. She crushed from the firm officers who commanded her all energy and initiative, leaving behind the hulls of men who only knew that they must obey Captain Clendening. She made of able Captain Clendening a man sick and puzzled and afraid. She foundered...
...code of laws for his native land. Bit-by-bit this code, called Yueh Fa, has been enacted by the Nationalist Government. Most notable change in the laws is that affecting marriage and the family, which the Legislative Yuan passed last December. Excerpts: "The duty of a wife to obey her husband, provided in the old law, is not recognized by the new. . . . Whereas under the old law a married woman . . . could not dispose of her property without her husband's consent; under the new laws women enjoy full and unrestricted disposing capacity. . . . Concubines do not enjoy any legal...
...second millionaire's butler. The two millionaires are engaged in a wholly ridiculous struggle for 50 shares of valuable stock. The fact that the story makes no sense at all adds immeasurably to its gaiety since all the characters seem well aware of this and at all times obey, with nonchalant enthusiasm, the most unlikely impulses. Funniest of them all is the second millionaire at whose elaborate country estate the story, such as it is, develops...
...Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman for libel...
...time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with...