Word: czar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly convinced," Senator Owen replied, "that France and Russia are entirely responsible for the war, and that they worked deliberately to bring it on. On July 24, 1914, actual preparations for war were undertaken by both France and Russia, although it was not known by the Czar that the mobilization was to be general until July 30. Germany, who had been forced to keep her army in readiness by the preparations of her rivals realized in the last days of July, when she could see that war was inevitable, that her only chance lay in speed...
...Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind these barricades and begin to approach things in terms of emotion...
...Communism, Mr. Green declared that in its present form it is the chief enemy of labor. Labor is fighting desperately against the spread of Russian propaganda for it realizes that Communism in the place of monarchy is simply tyranny of the Communist leaders instead of the tyranny of the Czar...
...caucus was over. Mr. Longworth-"Nick," wearer of spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois (he may have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although...
...tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty in its midst. For here is to such prospect. Denounced by the Dowager Empress and her loyal following "Czar" Cyril frankly admits he does not expect "a very big assembly...