Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week as Spain's lively, cavaliering Alfonso XIII sunbasked at smart Biarritz, he tossed a sort of answer to pert Coralie van Paassen, of the New York Evening World. "If it could be done," smiled His Majesty, "I would like to follow the example of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great...
...Siberia (Amkino). A sly, shriveled fellow with the stealth of a fox and the cruelty of a eunuch arrives at a Siberian prison in the Tsar's time and begins to run things the way he wants them. The picture is not a story but a description of the way the imperial prisons are said to have been. There is propaganda in it, but that is kept out of sight. Its horror, too is kept out of sight, brought to life by suggestion until it becomes a mood as palpable as a sound, like something howling. This would...
...Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the Associated Press, "that 'The Star-Spangled Banner' had been played in Moscow since the War." The day was the eleventh anniversary of the assassination by Soviet executors of Tsar Nicholas...
...fool is Shah Reza of Persia. Fifteen years ago he was an insignificant private in Tsar Nicholas II's Cossack garrison in Persia. By persistent, painstaking banditry he terrorized the Persian Majlis (Assembly) into making him Minister of War, Prime Minister, Dictator and finally Shah-inshah, King of Kings, ruler of the Peacock Throne...
...opponents [in Bulgaria] have made all kinds of false accusations, such as that I intended to put back the Tsar Ferdinand on the throne. That was not true, because Ferdinand is always able to return to Bulgaria. He vacated the throne voluntarily and was not expelled from the country...