Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene of a "leap week", at which time the young ladies of the institution overthrew the conventional male dominance and took matters into their own hands. Feeling that a time had come for a serious consideration of the problem of feminine control of social matters, the traditional masculine yoke was removed and the girls were given their chance. They were allowed to request the company of a favored gentleman "without the least embarrassment", and to enjoy generally the "freedom" of masculine life. The dances had a well-filled stag, or more correctly, doe line, and the men were left...
...need to emphasize" he said, "that Koenigstein's population hails this day of liberation from the foreign yoke. How we have longed for the day! I must, however, declare that the British troops did not make life as hard for us as some French troops who were quartered on us previously...
...They protest that it is a world defeat for the forces of Liberalism. An unnamed politician said: "The Roman Church will strengthen its hold, especially on the Latin-American countries, which are watching Mexico's test and are anxious to follow her example . . . to free themselves from the yoke of the clergy...
...monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently cast off the Portuguese yoke in 1822, President James Monroe of the U.S.A. was first to recognize Dom Pedro as "Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil." Not until 1889 was the Imperial House deposed and a republic proclaimed -for the grotesque reason that Dom Pedro II had alienated the affections of his lazy subjects...
...soldier enters the army to learn the use of arms in order that he may use them successfully in case an enemy should attack our country, or when we ourselves will attack an enemy to free our brothers still under the foreign yoke...