Word: tyrant
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...plans to keep the Greeks in London's orbit. Winston Churchill thought it wise to put his stamp on Papandreou, stress once more that Britain is not irrevocably wedded to King George of Greece. Said Churchill: "His Majesty's Government will give you all support. . . . The Nazi tyrant must be destroyed. . . . After this ... the Greek nation, free from foreign interference, will choose the form of democratic government under which they wish to live. The King is the servant of his people. I am sure he has no wish to force himself upon the Greek nation...
Cursing the Vanderbilts, Astors, Goulds and their ilk, as well as the hillbilly Confederate Longstreets who claimed relationship, Grandpa was a tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...
...possibility is the formation of a third major league on the West Coast, even if Baseball Tyrant K. M. Landis threatens outlawry. The other: extension of the present American and National Leagues to include San Francisco and Los Angeles-and probably Houston and Kansas City as well, to keep air-travel costs within reason...
...Deist, an ardent disciple of Rousseau, and I suspect a Freemason," fled Spain in 1823, settled in Glasgow, and moved to "rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
Bertie Charles Forbes, Hearst financial columnist, publisher (Forbes Magazine), author (Keys to Success), was sued for a separation by his wife Adelaide after 28 years. She charged that her husband is a "bully, egotist, tyrant and bore," and that she had to "draw his bath, lay out his clothes, button his shirt and underwear, cut his toenails, lace his shoes and open his car door...