Word: tsardom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose: to corral the rest of the 48. Its president is Vincent Jacobi of the stagehands' Theatrical Protective Union No. 1. But observers wondered whether behind the scenes ambitious George Browne might be trying for tsardom again...
...seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having burdened Canada with them. Said their former friends: "The sect ... is self-centred, self-righteous, and intolerant." "No more impenetrable group...