Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed or treaty negotiated by the Dominions which is repugnant to a law affecting the Dominion and passed by the Parliament at Westminster is void...
Ziwar Pasha, Premier of Egypt, declined to have Parliament summoned by King Fuad, preferring, apparently, to trust to the rising tide of his popularity in elections allegedly soon to be held...
...following day the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston S. Churchill, treated the new Parliament to its first dose of Churchillian oratory. Mr. Churchill knew perfectly well where he was going. "I have," he said, "to attend a meeting of allied Finance Ministers in Paris in January next, and it will be the wish of everyone that that meeting should be animated by a spirit of comradeship, that it should not be marked by hagglings, bargainings, recriminations or reproaches...
...many feet, and down the red-carpeted stairs came King George and Queen Mary. After they had entered the coach and the door had been ceremoniously closed, order was quietly passed along to the postilions and "the most superb carriage ever built" rolled on to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster...
...surrounded on every side by berobed and beermined dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons and their bejeweled consorts.* Meantime, Black Rod? had been sent to fetch His Majesty's faithful Commons and in due time they appeared to hear the King say why for he had summoned his sixth Parliament...