Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of the S. M. R. spear, became the capital of puppet Emperor Henry Pu Yi (TIME, March 5, 1934). Beyond that point, S. M. R. trains have been unable to go on over a spur of the Chinese Eastern to the great Russianized city of Harbin because prudent Tsar Nicholas II had Russia's rails spaced 3½ inches farther apart than Japan's. Last week, following the purchase of the Chinese Eastern from Russia, Japanese got ready to move 150 miles of the spur's rails so as to jab their spear clear to Harbin...
...trousers, low boots, high caps and light silk jackets, drivers like Fred Egan, Doc Parshall, Will Caton, Ben White, Leo Fleisch in last week's Hambletonian, are the best in the world. Caton, who won three years ago with The Marchioness, wore as usual, the silks of the Tsar of Russia whose horses he drove for years before...
...dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry Lehr masqueraded as the Tsar of Russia, made a joke of the conflict, amused the absent Grand Duke...
...launched its Legion of Decency, U. S. Protestantism had produced many an able independent warrior. One such was Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman, liberal Episcopal fortnightly, oldest (131 years) religious journal in English. Munching popcorn and pounding out Churchman editorials on his typewriter, Dr. Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn...
...hidden reflections in an article on Maximilian of Mexico, had the author censured. He violently defended the reign of Leopold II even when no one was attacking it. His moods changed with Hamlet-like rapidity, and politicians said he always agreed with the last speaker. The assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin...