Word: despot
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...there is a great variety in the systems of determining grades. But this variety, far from being the spice of life, is rather the fly in the undergraduate's ointment. Some courses have schemes which insure justice and impartiality. Others, however, make of each section man an arbitrary despot. The natural variation in the rigor of these lieutenants is translated into a vast difference among the standards obtaining within a single course. Distinctions among students of the same merit necessarily follow...
Last week the Book-of-the-Month Club offered Caulaincourt's recently discovered memoirs as its choice for December. Readers found it an extraordinary portrait of a despot at the moment of his greatest eminence and the beginning of his fall, might question its authenticity only because the story of its discovery seemed too pat to be believed. After Napoleon's fall Caulaincourt lived in retirement, was stung to reply when rivals published memoirs that discredited him. His family withheld his exposures, fearing libel, until 1914. During the German invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt...
...pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve the bat industry. But it's all so chaotic and aimless. The Russians have a much better chance; they can be consistent and lambante nothing but nasty old capitalism. Hence their effort along the same lines, "The New Gulliver...
Mistake No. 3: When Ethiopia's wily Emperor ran true to immemorial form, balking Italian concessionaires and bilking II Duce with the too-shrewd tricks of an Afric people's despot, Dictator Mussolini made the cardinal mistake of not educating world public opinion by a campaign of publicity such as Germany has waged for years, yowling from every vantage point how she has been wronged...
...week Republican efforts to hang responsibility for the unpopular Act on President Roosevelt had become so vehement that New Dealers felt obliged to have Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson observe in his weekly propaganda letter: "It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto part of a bill. He has got to accept or reject the whole thing and they [potato sponsors] reasoned logically that he would rather take the potato than destroy the whole measure asked...