Word: sovereignly
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...months Mexican Nationalist Representatives and Senators have been swelling out their chests in Parliament and announcing to the world in general that Mexico is a Sovereign State and can make what laws she pleases. They added that they were at work upon certain laws which would displease most foreigners a great deal. At Washington, President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg have maintained a portentous silence. The present Mexican regime was recognized a short time after the death of President Harding only after a U.S.-Mexican Commission had arrived at the distinct understanding that there would be no enforcement of the fourth...
...coast about two leagues . . .and . . idols. . .nearly all of them with figures of tall women, so that we called the place the Punta de Mugeres" (Women's Point). Juan de Grijalva a year later sailed from Cuba to the Island of Cozumel. After claiming that land for his sovereign with the usual blithe arrogance of his age, Grijalva crossed to the visible eastern shore of Yucatan, where his historian describes sighting "three large towns separated from each other by about two miles. There were many houses of stone, very call towers and buildings covered with straw . . .the next day toward...
...branch preserved the tradition of knightly succor to fighting men by maintaining the St. John's Ambulance Association. For the rest, the order is now chiefly honorary. Queen Victoria graciously presented the Knights and Ladies with a royal charter, and Edward VII and George V have served successively as Sovereign Head and Patron of this Victorian revival. In consequence of such royal patronage, British warships will be required to fire an official salute upon the approach of the knightly-cruise ship, which is scheduled to leave for the Mediterranean in March...
...fervor to the rebels and misguided ones and strive to maintain the rights of God himself intact," for "when in international meetings and parliaments the sweet name of our Redeemer is passed in shameful silence it is highly necessary to acclaim it publicly, announcing everywhere the rights of His sovereign dignity and power...
...once Achille Ratti, but since Feb. 12, 1922, His Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome an Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Temporal Dominions of the Holy Roman Church...