Word: czar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today it is the Chicago Opera Company, which calls him from his haunts with the martial strains of Borls Godunoff. If ever there was a story fit to be set to music it is the story of this early Czar of Russia, and eminently fitting is the music which Moussorgsky was inspired to write. In it he has embodied the fierce old Muscovite Boyar himself; in it is the spirit of the half Oriental Princes who fought to drive the Tartan hordes from the gates; in it and through it is the note of something primitive, something untamed like...
...Mediterranean Sea, was owned by Turkey, and for three years Russian played fast and loose with Turkey, with her eye on the strait. Turkey saw through the device, and Russia turned to stirring up the Balkan States against the Ottomans. The Balkan War ended this plan, and the Czar saw that only in a general European War could his ambitions...
...himself among the dilettantes of Hollywood; the fact that he acted in sentimental cinemas; and above all the fact that he did not want to fight Negro Harry Wills have all weighed against him. Furthermore, Dempsey is a lowbrow. His grammar is gummy at the edges; he reads The Czar's Spy, by William Le Queux, The Spoilers, by Rex Beach, and makes no bones about his ignorance of philosophy. Pinochle is his favorite game, and he addresses his butler as "Babe." It is said that this butler has irritated Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey. A thin figure with splayed...
...between wooden slabs. They ran his father through the middle with the cold tines of a pitchfork, tossed him on the white snow beside the body of his brother near the grey ice of the Dnieper. George Zagorsky, 25, son of onetime Brigadier General Zagorsky of the Czar's Imperial Russian Army has good reason to detest "Reds." Last week George sweltered in Manhattan, parsed verbs, declined nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which to learn English before his passport expires. He will then...
...circles it was already secure. About 1900 he returned to the U.S. He was employed by the Guggenheims at a fabulous salary, reputed to be as much as a $1,000,000 a year. He was sent as special U. S. Ambassador to the coronation of George V. The Czar of Russia twice called him to consult on irrigation and other engineering problems. President Taft (his very good friend) offered him the post of Minister to China (which he refused). He became interested in irrigation, electric power, electric railway developments on a large scale and on several continents. His most...