Word: autocrat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imperious autocrat of Argentina's intellectual life is a woman. Now 54, tall, tailored Victoria Ocampo has been her country's acknowledged "Queen of Letters" for nearly a quarter of a century.* As essayist, she speaks for the old traditions: the French-speaking aristocrat reluctant to cut the cord to Europe. As editor, she speaks for tomorrow: the new and national literature for which Argentina strives...
Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif...
...autocrat of the Chicago breakfast table, the Tribune's Robert Rutherford McCormick, last week laid down the law on two subjects: woodsmanship and military history...
...Sultan is the nominal autocrat of three countries, in each of which somebody else is the real boss: French Morocco, the northwest shoulder of Africa; Spanish Morocco, its epaulet; and Tangier (overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar), the chip on the shoulder...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok...