Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little capital of Sofia everybody had known for a week that something was about to happen. With Italy at war, it had become of the first significance that Bulgaria's Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found...
...Tsar Boris, addressing an Army review as scheduled, cried grandiloquently: "Bulgaria must remain an independent country, for which the Army is the principal guarantee as long as it remains true to the spirit of its ancestors...
...Said Coach John Corriden: ''He was guilty of antagonizing and demoralizing our ball club. . . ." Coach Roy Johnson accused Umpire Moriarty of making improper reflections on the Cubs' ancestry. Said the National League's President Ford Frick: "Moriarty used blasphemous language. . . ." Next day, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis held a conference with all principals involved, announced he might do something when the Series ended...
...Lucien Guitry had kidnapped Sacha, taken him to Russia, hiding him at frontiers and introducing him to the theatre almost as soon as he could talk. Sacha was petted, spoiled, teased by such individuals as Douroff. great St. Petersburg clown, who singled him out of circus crowds and by Tsar Alexander III, before whom his father appeared...
...great career. A scant 20 years ago Samuel Hoare was merely the name of a British secret operative in Imperial Russia whose almost immediate knowledge of the assassination of Gregory ("Mad Monk") Rasputin led to complications. These were unsnarled only when the British Ambassador personally assured excited Tsar Nicholas and his hysterical Tsarina that pro-German Rasputin had not been murdered as an act of War expediency by British Agent Hoare...