Word: autocratic
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...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...
Wrens and Marmalade. Young Wendell was raised among Boston's Brahmins by a father whose eccentricities plagued his son more than a storm of briefs. Dr. Holmes was noted professionally for his researches into puerperal fever. But he was famous as an indefatigable essayist and light versifier. His Autocrat of the Breakfast Table had impressed even the Germans - who read it under the some what imperious title, Der Tisch-Despot...
...Autocrat Holmes presided over a family (he had two boys, one girl) who chattered like "a nest of wrens" (whoever was wittiest at table was awarded an extra spoon ful of marmalade). "Don't take it so hard, Wendell," said Uncle John Holmes when the doctor wrote whimsical articles about his son in the Atlantic Monthly. "You will get used to your father. I did, long...
...autocrat to his finger tips, Cardinal O'Connell was a remote figure to most of the 23 million U.S. Catholics. But they heard him often. He thundered against Hollywood ("the scandal of the nation"), Albert Einstein's theories ("authentic atheism, even if camouflaged as cosmic pantheism"), radio crooners ("whiners crying vapid words"), mercy killings ("suffering is the discipline of humanity"), morals in general ("women are becoming masculine and the men effeminate"). He denounced immoral styles, told his priests they might refuse Holy Communion to women with lipstick...