Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your review of Isaac Deutscher's Stalin: A Political Biography [TIME, Oct. 10], you mention that Stalin in Siberian exile under the Czar received food parcels and picture postcards from his mother-in-law. Can you tell me whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive such gifts from the folks back home...
...standards of life being raised," Dr. Nourse said dryly, "... when a great labor organization sees the current situation as 'the occasion for a reduction in hours of work'... or when the czar of coal orders a three-day week with full pay . . . and when pensions at 60 are demanded for a population steadily becoming longer lived...
...when he arrived, accompanied only by his Secret Service shadows, he found himself at a formal banquet with 200 of the nation's top industrialists. Seated around him were Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Motion Picture Czar Eric Johnston, Arthur A. Frank, chairman of the board of Standard Railway Equipment Mfg. Co., and dozens of other high-powered and high-placed big businessmen...
...Opera composer views life from standpoint at odds with history. Knows work is artificial, ludicrous, does not care, or cannot help self . . . Soviet love of ballet quite different-freedom of movement, jumping, aspiring, etc. Probably otherwise under Czar." But such happy jottings were soon to be interrupted. At a mass press conference with Mussolini, Divver was jostled accidentally and raised a protesting voice; he was ejected, shouting and waving his fist, and at once became a hero back home. Too cowardly to refuse his accidental fame, Divver became Forward's expert on Italian affairs. Practice...
...Fence Me In. Foes of the beard have been sniping at it for thousands of years, heaping it with vulgarity and ridicule. When, says Reynolds, mustachioed Czar Peter the Great rebuked a Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat." Peter, who had a marked tendency to kowtow before degenerate Western ways, was so impressed by this remark that he levied a tax on all Russian beards...