Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father death." These stories throb with a violence that makes the atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame. If you do not finish by morning, says the Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife, wishes to hang her. But his friends counsel moderation: "Rather, build a chapel next to the church, and put your wife in it; whoever goes to Mass is to spit...
Many baseball bigwigs feel about their Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler the way some Democrats feel about President Truman. They wish the other guy were still here. They had reservations about Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as czar. They hoped when they unanimously compromised last spring on Happy as the Judge's successor that they could have him as the czar who reigns but does not rule. Last week they decided to let him wear the Landis shoes...
Down Thrice. Peter's second son became the dogmatic, determined state-maker, Alexander I, first king of the Yugoslavs. In his youth, while a student at St. Petersburg, he fell in love with Tatiana, one of the Czar's daughters, who, along with her parents, was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg. All his life Alexander was obsessed by fear and hatred of the Red Russians; they called Yugoslavia "the graveyard of Communists." When Alexander was assassinated at Marseilles in 1934, his son Peter, a shy, eleven-year-old who dreamed of being a radio mechanic, wept...
Then they looked around for a czar to run the show. What they wanted was a man whose plea for free exchanges would be listened to in Washington; whose firm hand would keep the traders in line, so that there would be no trouble, such as last summer's scandal in rye, to bring down further regulation...
When he took over his new $50,000-a-year job, new Czar Jackson carefully explained that he was not fronting for a lobby or pressure group. But traders did not think that his friendship with President Truman was a handicap...