Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President and the Senator from Alabama would substitute for free speech here a gag rule that would be more intolerable than any tyranny ever manifested in any legislative body on this earth...
...taut-waisted fighters, urbane yet steely-eyed diplomats, suave but ruthless statesmen-these are the overlords that Britain sends to cow subject peoples. Such is George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd, British High Commissioner to Egypt-a so-called "independent state" whose King, Fuad I, reigns though he does not rule...
...they are so poorly and inadequately paid. Strangely enough there are no aristocrats in Spain interested enough in music to serve as patrons or in any way to encourage musical development. The rank and file of the Spanish people are music lovers, but the aristocracy do not, as a rule, even attend the concerts. The unselfish enthusiasm of the members of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra is touching. They played for me for three rehearsals without remuneration, and the complete sale of the house, when divided among the orchestra, netted each member about...
Gradually the opposition of the school authorities is disappearing. The Pittsburgh School Board is the latest to make an exception in the case of "Old Ironsides" and suspend their rule because they believe in its patriotic and educational value. Cleveland. St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Buffalo have yet to have their campaigns among the children. Admiral Andrews hopes that before the snow flies the "Old Ironsides" movement will be in full swing in these cities...
...swordplay between two high officials of the Polish government. Were the custom to be followed in the United States, duels, lineally descended from the Burr-Hamilton affair of the early Republic, would settle insurgent politics. A single snick of a rapier in the dawn might prove an effective cloture rule for Senate debate...