Word: czardom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he became the dominant member of Memphis' censor board, Hollywood has quietly fumed at his autocratic czardom. Last week, David Loew, producer of The Southerner, mobilized for a court fight. Cried he: "Binford must have been sniffing too many magnolias...
...When Czardom went to the wolves in the early spring of 1917, and Kerensky tiptoed onto the stage, Kollontay and her friends streamed back to Petrograd. Kerensky had her arrested, later released her. Now she was ready for Bolshevism and the November Revolution. She was made the first People's Commissar for Social Welfare. Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went...