Word: autocrats
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...rules is appointed with power to designate the privileged measures. The Speaker of the House is compelled to recognize any man who tries to pass a privileged bill, except on two days of each month, called days of suspension. During these two days only is the Speaker an autocrat. As the Speaker is chosen from the members and is selected for pre-eminent talent, it is very natural that he should be the leader of the members. Mr. Cannon, the present Speaker, has often been called a despot, but he is a most benevolent despot...
...looked upon every star as a tyrant, and when I became a star I looked upon every stock actor as a conspirator. Shakespeare invented the starring system. Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth, Coriolanus are all stars. These plays also were written to illustrate human passions; Othello, jealousy; Macbeth, fate; Coriolanus, the autocrat; Merchant of Venice, revenge...
...contributed largely to the Register, one of the forerunners of the Advocate. His first brilliant piece was the poem he delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner after his return from Paris. The Atlantic Monthly first brought his name prominently before the public as the author of the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," which was received with great favor. Since then his success has been uninterrupted...
...Road Horses" is a clever intermixture of the jockey, the traveller, and the essayist. "Over the Teacups," is not as good as usual. The historian of them cannot keep his hand away from the more familiar characters that in other days figured in the "Autocrat," the "Poet," and the "Professor." James Jeffrey Roche gives a poem "At Sea," evidently suggested by the death of his brother in the Samoan hurricane...
...easily obtainable anywhere. However, this betrays a rank and horrible system of persecution and injustice. Imagine the hungry students, being fed on elegant cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors...