Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman of Affairs is Iris March, Michael Aden's "white, so white" lady, now called Diana Merrick to fool Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who objected to The Green Hat. As a protector of public morals, Mr. Hays will no doubt shiver when the loose ring, symbol of Miss Merrick's character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows...
Very cautious and coy was that gruff Bulgarian elder statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, when he arrived in Rome last week, reputedly to represent Tsar Boris of Bulgaria in the matter of Princess Giovanna of Italy. This royal match has been rumored for so many years that incredulity must again be to the fore. All the same M. Muchanoff allowed himself to be most significantly quoted by the militant Fascist daily Il Tevere. At the very least his words served notice to Italians that a Roman Catholic princess need not switch to the Orthodox faith in order to become Bulgaria...
Died. Harry Coulby, 64, of Cleveland, ("Tsar of the Great Lakes"), ship and steel tycoon (Interlakes Steamship Co., Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.); suddenly; in London...
...Grand Duke Nicholas, so-called "strong man" of the former Russian imperial family, was commander-in-chief of the Russian armies (1914-15), and second cousin of assassinated Tsar Nicholas II and last, whose successor he claimed to be. A leader of glorious victories and masterly retreats, the Grand Duke Nicholas was beloved of thousands of Russian emigres and commanded popularity even among the masses in Russia after the Revolution, to the constant discomfort of the Soviet state...
...incontestably legal heir to Russia's vanished Throne is now the Grand Duke Cyril Yladimirovitch, a bitter rival of Nicholas, who long since proclaimed himself ''Tsar of Russia...