Word: czar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Potter Palmer built his house on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive in 1882, it had all the appurtenances of a princely European castle except the princes. The redoubtable Mrs. Potter Palmer took care of that. She chartered a yacht, set off for Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II, and returned triumphantly with a swatch of Russian princelings and princesses to waltz in her velvet-lined ballroom...
Behind the pillared portico of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, built by an imperial czar, the imperial commissars held jubilee last week on the 26th anniversary of holy Lenin's death. Present for the annual memorial address were the new Red masters of China, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who had been in Moscow since Dec. 16, and his Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, who had just arrived...
...Local 802 officials were skeptical at first. But when, after several rehearsals, they heard the orchestra play, they decided that some of Local 802's share of the A.F.M.'s $4,500,000 in recording and transcription royalties should be used to help the old boys along. Czar James Caesar Petrillo himself dropped in, listened and rasped with approval: "That's what we want-culture." Local 802 agreed to pay the Old Timers the minimum scale: $9.00 for one rehearsal, $30 a performance. By August the musicians had polished their work enough to give their first free...
...Czar Ivan now betook himself ... to an open space in the suburbs [of Great Novgorod] and ordered his men to bring before him all the boyars, commercial magnates, and elders whom they had arrested, together with their wives and.'children; and here, before his eyes [they] were burnt with red-hot instruments of torture, and then . . . bound to horses and sleighs, dragged to the river . . . and thrown into the water. Women and children . . . were tied together and likewise thrown [in] . . . The streltsy (sharpshooters) followed the victims, borne by the current along the shore and down the middle...
...massacres perpetrated by tyrants in the name of "national unity." When Ivan the Terrible came to the throne in 1547, Russia was still a collection of semi-independent states; when he died 37 years later, in the midst of a quiet game of chess, the central authority of the Czar in Moscow was recognized even by those whose powers of recognition had been burnt from their eye-sockets with red-hot irons...