Word: tyrant
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...cannot see how the facts which follow in Gomez, Tyrant of the Andes would account for disinterest. They might account for dislike, distaste or even nausea, but scarcely for disinterest if my knowledge of psychology is worth anything...
...people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from the German Press a bloody, harrowing account of a railway wreck, called it The Crazed Engineer, his publishers objected, cut it from posthumous editions...
...doubt who will that tonight I portray the ceaseless yearning of their hearts and the ambition of their minds. Let him who will, be he economic tyrant or sordid mercenary, pit his strength against this mighty upsurge of human sentiment now being crystallized in the hearts of 30,000,000 workers who clamor for the establishment of industrial democracy and for participation in its tangible fruits...
...eight years before Cubans got sufficiently agitated to chase Tyrant Gerardo Machado off their beautiful island (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). It was nearly two and a half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante). Last week, at the end of a breath-taking series of six Provisional Presidents since the flight of Machado, Cuba inaugurated its sixth legally elected President, Miguel Mariano Gómez, who happened to be the son of its second President, General Jose Miguel Gómez.* Small, young (45), determined President...
Today then, as Kitty walks slowly down the aisle of his classroom, with his worn copy of "The Winter's Tale", defending Leontes from the charge of being a "bitter, jealous tyrant", the last of Harvard's great lights will be dimmed and Professor Kittredge will step into Harvard history...