Word: cathedra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention was made in Youth Pravda of the young actress, though, other Moscow papers said that the Red Kipling "killed himself for love." A further motive mentioned...