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...suppression, destruction and terror, an agency of superb, fiendish efficiency. While the Tsarol police had favored the living death of Siberia for their victims, Dzerzhinsky, merciful perhaps, signed death warrants literally by the bale. "There is no god but the Cheka, and Dzerzhinsky is its pope!" became a black byword in the years...
Once again the great name of Raymond Poincaré was heard. His incorruptibility is a byword. His energy and ability have enabled him to become a much sought lawyer, a self-made man of wealth, a statesman of primatical fame. He has been twice Premier (1911-13; 1922-24) and throughout the War and peace negotiations was President of France (1913-20). It was felt last week that if M. Poincaré would consent to assume the portfolio of finance, solidarity would be given at least to the fiscal policy of France. M. Poincaré (Right: ultra-anti-German) signified...
Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...gambling losses alone are estimated at well over $3,000,000. And the entertainments which he has staged upon his yacht off most of the fashionable watering places in Europe have become a byword, and are said to have accounted for another million...