Word: realm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taxier is convinced beyond question that what the realm of the Rolunda really needs is good food and an institution such as he plans...
...huge Palace of Westminster, called the Houses of Parliament, the lords and mighty prelates of the Realm were sitting on benches of soft red morocco. The King and Queen were on their thrones-His Majesty bedight with "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Queen Mary's robe of cloth-of-silver, blazing with diamonds, betokened that the Court is no longer in mourning for the late Queen Alexandra...
Harry Thaw's actual condition was suggested by the allegation that after friends broke in and rescued Miss Estardus he ran about shouting: "Where's my brush? Where's my brush?" Such words, if they were uttered, place Mr. Thaw outside the realm of useful discussion by a public not made up of specialists...
...complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society on an economic basis. Capital and capitalists became powerful factors in the realm, with a corresponding depression of the lower classes. Socialism as conceived by these early philosophiers was an ideal whose realization would remedy the defects of this system, and as such it has been advocated by leading reformers ever since. It remained for extremists to distort the aims and principles...
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm...