Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the youth of a school greet a visiting governor of a state such greeting is not generally an informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing-yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York...
...President to receive power to: 1) Dissolve the Sejm (Parliament) and Senate; 2)Rule by decree when Parliament is not in session; 3) Rule by decree, in any case, until January...
...secret band of patriots who spied throughout Austria-Hungary during the War, providing Benes with material which he made the substance of dickers with the Allies. It was Benes who secured the recognition of the Czechoslovaks by the Allies (1917) as a people to be liberated from foreign rule. In 1918 he obtained from Balfour and Clemenceau recognition for Czechoslovakia, as "an Allied and Belligerent nation." At that time French publicist Fournal wrote: "Benes has destroyed Austria-Hungary...
There is another empire over which Arthur Curtiss James presides. He even has a flag to symbolize his rule there-a triangular piece of bunting bearing a crescent and a star. It flew at the masthead of the Coronette, the yacht in which he went around the world; it snapped at the halyards of the Aloha I and the Aloha II, famous sailing yachts. Mr. James handles his yachts himself. He holds master's papers which permit him to operate his craft in any waters. He is a former commodore of the New York and Seawanhaka-Corinthian yacht clubs...
...brief, to rule out this course because of its martial connotation or because it could become too cheap a part of modern education is unfair. The cogent argument against it is that which suggests this as another movement inward professionalizing the college. Yet it need not be quite that if it be a real part of the movement toward making military training less the professional study of the few and more an accessory knowledge of the many. Military life will continue to assume a professional status in the eyes of those who wish so to make it. But the tendency...