Word: autocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Catholic Church the Pope appoints bishops, usually upon the advice of archbishops and bishops. The Pope, unquestioned autocrat, may depose a bishop. In the Church of England the King gingerly functions like the Pope; for extreme cause he, too, may remove a bishop. The Protestant Episcopal Church lacks both Pope and King. Its ruler is a House of Bishops, a senate of sanctified aristocrats elected by priests and laymen. Only the House of Bishops may condemn an erring fellow. Methodists also elect their bishops. But a Methodist bishop's office is executive. He is a superintendent...
...have you got one real man in England-I care not what you call him: autocrat, democrat, aristocrat-who can rule and dare not lie? I hope my old friend Ramsay MacDonald will at least prove the man to rule and that he will not dare to lie to his own conscience, to his own dead wife, to his living country, to his own party, and that you British delegates of all parties will help him to make history...
...Imperial Palace Hotel (modeled after London's Savoy) is, for purposes of the story, internationally admitted to be best of its kind in the world. Famed among hotel tycoons but little-known to the public, 47-year-old Evelyn Orcham is Imperial Palace's director, beloved autocrat. At 4:30 a.m. he is about to set out for the meat market with his buyer, when in come Tycoon Sir Henry Savott, his lovely daughter Gracie, late arrivals from a liner. Gracie admires Evelyn at sight, sets her cap at him, will not be happy till she gets him. In Paris...
Many are the figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator...
...broke. The people of Buenos Aires, the Army and Navy of Argentina rose in a joyous rather than bloody revolution, cast their sick and aged hombre out and down. They had watched him take their overwhelming vote of two years ago as a lcense to behave as an autocrat, as a dictator more absolute and infinitely more unreasonable than Signor Benito Mussolini. Being staunch Democrats, the people could stand such tyranny no longer-especially in view of Argentina's current business slump, "hard times," and the provokingly low price Argentines now get for grain...