Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short and simple, the reopening service was without sermon, consisted chiefly of a prayer by patriarchal Dean Albert Victor Baillie of Windsor for the "Sovereign and His Companions of the Garter...
...imitate her grandfather. And to show that she is taking the part of a woman of about 50 she has made herself quite hideous, with drooping eyes and sagging mouth doubtful even in a 17th Century lady. Mr. Lunt is imposing as the doughty Essex, who deeply resents his Sovereign's curtailment of his expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which...
...people of Brazil, exhausted from suffering continuous humiliations at the hands of a bad government and alive to their sovereign prerogatives, not permitting themselves to fear the bombastic resistance on the part of the government, have been able to do their duty and to enforce their own civic opinions and thereby cater to foreign respect...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...monopoly of the Danish Crown, but even so the monetary returns from Greenland are so meagre that Denmark is out of pocket some $150,000 yearly as a result of keeping her huge colony. Greenland is bigger than Iceland which is not a "Danish colony" but a "sovereign State" whose king, Christian X, happens to be also King of Denmark...