Word: autocrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physician-Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Justice's father, was and still is popularly famed as a poet and essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into...
...authors did not forget that they represented the American Association of University Professors and that A. A. U. P. champions academic freedom with the same zeal which Chancellor Bowman reserves for his Cathedral of Learning. They found that the Chancellor is an autocrat who called for the resignations of 53 professors at the end of his first year and who warns his faculty in form letters that their contracts may not be renewed. They found that his purge of liberalism has left every faculty member fearing for his job. They found that the charge of irreligion against Professor Turner...
Tall, white-haired, blue-eyed, "Joe" Knapp remains behind the scenes of his business enterprises, occupies offices of his own in a separate Manhattan building. But he is the complete autocrat...
...white-maned at 69, "Reverent" Powell (as many a parishioner calls him) is accustomed to rule his flock like a benign autocrat. Indeed he and his officers are empowered to declare vacant any of the numerous posts in the church. But last week Pastor Powell was meeting open defiance-from the Friendly Society's president, a tall, blue-black West Indian named Samuel Skerritt. Six months ago, recalling that the Friendly Society books had not been audited for four years, Pastor Powell asked for a look at them. Samuel Skerritt seemed evasive. And when Pastor Powell kept on asking...
...bridesmaid: Beauteous Grand Duchess Kyra Kyrilovna, daughter of His Majesty the Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Kyril Alexandrovich, Emperor of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan,-if Josef Stalin would only...