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...Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...
Twelve sons of Islam carried the 600-pound red, leaden coffin containing his body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears...
...undertake the task lightly," said he, "but it seemed to afford an opportunity for service. . . . We want everyone who has any ideas for bettering the motion picture to come in through the Open Door and tell us his ideas about it. . . ." Will Hays sat as tsar of moviedom like Judge Landis in baseball, yet saw people, listened. "I believe," said he, "in the personal relationship of man, the expression of personality, and above all, keeping the human element-the heart touch-in everything...
...Coronations do not come so very dear. Subtle ex-Tsar Ferdinand smiles in his beard. He answers no questions. Little Tsar Boris motors with abandon, hunts in picturesque attire, confides to pressmen that he loves birds, flowers, wolfhounds, but no woman-and witless rumors fly. Behind the iridescent screen of these puerilities, the old Tsar tweaks many a string, moves about Europe in welcome obscurity, continues to be a force which statesmen do not neglect to recognize...
Then again, in No-Ape Tennessee, Heretic John T. Scopes hearkened to alarming cries of Gospel-Truth Norris, winced under the hyperorthodoxy of the Baptist tsar from Texas. Mr. Chipps, according to Dr. Norris and his disciple, L. H. Nutt, refused to leave the parson's premises...