Word: summonsed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only setback to the headlong Long week came from the U. S. Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of...
Then came the Lord Chancellor's writ of summons in the King-Emperor's name: "We strictly enjoin and command you to be faithful to the allegiance by which you are bound to us!"
When Giulio Gatti-Casazza returns to Manhattan from his summers in Italy, the long-established routine has been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has...
Old Cabot Barr summons his happy family to his mansion to attend a memorial service for another member of the family who is supposed to have died in China. The service is broken up by the unexpected striking of Cabot's hundred odd clocks, which were supposed to have been...
He had indeed. Il Duce's knees would bend perforce to the Muse as he passed through the five-foot door to the sword-hung study where the Poet, in cloth of gold and purple velvet, summons servants garbed like monks from their surrounding "cells." D'Annunzio might permit so...