Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centuries of parliamentary tradition have left His Majesty's realm with almost no political plug-uglies, millions of loyal subjects overwhelmingly convinced that violence has no place in politics. Last week svelte, high-waisted Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, rich Fascist, decided to reform his Black Shirt movement into two sections. Members of the first or so-called "elite section" must be firm believers in violence as an instrument of party policy...
...blonde as herself. Pretty Helen Jepson is an expert fisherwoman and her radio contracts have already made her rich. But pretty Helen Jepson had little opportunity to prove herself more than a light, agreeable singer last week in the Metropolitan's latest and most dismal venture into the realm of native opera...
Since 1931 no M. P. pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
Into that luckless Afric realm Italians are expanding-with bombing planes, tanks, armored cars (TIME. Dec. 24). Squealing for protection His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I. King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God was last week trying to invoke Article XI of the League covenant. To Rome last week Geneva seemed particularly far away. Neither Mussolini nor Laval is squeamish. A definite impression got around that France will not protest too much if Italy makes of Abyssinia what Japan made of Manchuria...
...kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding what New Deal agencies sat above other New Deal agencies in the realm of political politeness...