Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria put on one day last week a surgeon's white gown and red rubber gloves...
Citizens of Sofia were on the qui vive. If they should hear an 101 gun salute that would mean that Tsaritsa Ioanna had been delivered of a Crown Prince-not by Tsar Boris of course. In his antiseptic gear he merely watched...
Boom!-went the first gun and all Sofia began to count. Only 21 blanks were fired. It was only a girl-but Sofia responded nobly. By Tsar Boris' order the small Palace grounds were thrown open to the people, including Communists who have a majority in Sofia's Civil Government. Popular and fearless, the white-gowned Tsar appeared on the very balcony from which, three weeks ago, he watched while several Macedonian terrorists pumped each other full of lead (TIME...
Inside the palace at that instant Little Tsar Boris and Alexander Malinoff, president of the assembly, were trying to pick a successor for Premier Nicolas Mouscha-noff. just resigned. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! A volley of shots rattled the tall windows. His Majesty and his minister scampered to the tall portieres just in time to see the hunting dogs, yelping furiously, disappear in the distance while the hunters, the editor and his bodyguards blazed blindly away. Out from their sentry hutches dashed the royal guards to open fire on both parties indiscriminately. A policeman and a window watcher...
That is the horrid end of Rasputin but not the end of horridness in Rasputin and the Empress. It goes on to show Tsar Nicholas (Ralph Morgan), the Tsarina (Ethel Barrymore), the Tsarevitch (Tad Alexander) and his sisters leaving their palace and being herded into a cellar where an enthusiastic firing squad disposes of them as though they were clay pigeons...