Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dipped to the royal palace at Oslo, to Explorer Amundsen's villa on a nearby fjord, and settled rather clumsily and with much ground assistance to her mooring mast. The populace had no chance to turn out again, nor government officials again to climb to the roof of Parliament, for she took her departure for Russia at midnight to escape rising winds. Over the Baltic Sea it was a cold, foggy night. Unprotected in the airship's gondola, unable even to sit down save on camp-stools or the keel, the staff made a bad night...
...although he could and did continue to act as anesthetist for Osteopath Barker, who through the years acquired more and more fame, until his knighting. That event gave a spurt to the propaganda of laymen for the restoration of Dr. Axham's dignities. The press assumed interest. Parliament heard of the case. Yet the General Council remained obdurate...
...ordered a presidential election and announced himself as a candidate, after directing that the polling be "postponed" in districts not favorable to him. The only Opposition candidate, M. Demerlis, prudently withdrew the night before the election. President General Theodore Pangalos was administering Greece as a Republic-without-a-Parliament when the week closed...
Justice Sir Horace E. Avory; John Withers, Member of Parliament for the university; Dr. Montague James, provost of Eton; Sir Walter M. Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Research Council, and Sir William Bragg, director of the Davy-Faraday research laboratory...
...recalled that she violently opposed the marriage of her second son Charles (in 1905 elected as King Haakon VII of Norway by the Norwegian Parliament when that country was disunited from Sweden) to Princess Maud (now Queen Maud of Norway), the daughter of Edward VII of Britain. She preferred that he should marry the present Queen of the Netherlands, who was at one time alleged to be in love with...