Word: parliament
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...expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons had denied him a seat. One of the severest crises in the history of the Mother of Parliaments was summarized in the slogan "Jack and Liberty." In the end, Jack won. He became M. P., Lord Mayor of London, retained to the end his interest...
...class. Having gone to England after his graduation he was knighted in 1660, and made a baronet in 1663. These marks of distinction were the results of his valuable work in Scotland and his services as the Ambassador to the Netherlands under Cromwell and Charles II and Member of Parliament. Dying in 1684, George Downing has left numerous collections of poems and letters, which are flavored not only by his own characteristics but also by the atmosphere of the times in which he lived...
...with an 800,000 population adopted it in 1921 by direct populate vote as a basic feature of a new city charter. In 1924, Cincinnatti followed Cleveland's lead. In 1926 Hamilton, Ohio, did likewise. It is now in use in Ireland for choosing the members of the national parliament at Dublin, and also of the parliament of North Ireland...
British law intervened last week to prevent the King-Emperor from reading an account of the affairs of his best known subject. Of the subject Mme. Sarah Bernhardt once said: "He is the greatest of all pantomimics." Yet Parliament recently passed a law (TIME, Dec. 20) forbidding the publication of sensational divorce details. Therefore though George V., R. I., may have read the London papers never so carefully last week, he read only half a dozen sentences about the cause célèbre precipitated last week by an 18-year-old girl who was studying...
...stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care for "Baby Betty"** (Princess Elizabeth) their eight-months-old daughter...