Word: tyrant
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...these janitors whose business is to hoist dumbwaiters and trundle garbage pails, beating upon them. He was numbered among janitors who waddle through the hallways of innumerable college dormitories. To alumni a legend of competence, to faculty members a jovial rock of propriety, to students a genial but unyielding tyrant, he had spent 54 years of his life upon the campus of the College of the City of New York. As his father had done when Michael Bonney was only a small, destructive hobbledehoy, he gave his time to tidying bedrooms and fixing lamps, sweeping up broken bottles, locking doors...
...young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough to shock blood out the tyrant's nose in a murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife, with her jumbled accumulation of animal sense and primitive witchcraft. The tragic quality of racial backwardness and superstition is developed with all possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead of as a theme...
...Anthony Wyse of Cambridge, was the program of the following year. Coming as it did after the enormously popular "Makropoulos Secret", any play of conventional plot, or at least a plot which made no pretense o "modernistic" ideas, was bound to seem comparatively. But this tale of a tyrant whose cruelty won him immortality was anything but unexciting. Nevertheless it proved one of the less popular of Dramatic Club Productions...
...Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization. Old Bill with his familiar pipe and muffler, little Alf, his great worry, and the tyrant corporal, muddle through the war somehow. On the occasion of a camp entertainment, Old Bill and Little Alf are sewed into a stuffed horse to take part in a play entitled Black Beauty or A Horse's Sacrifice. In the middle of the act, a hasty retreat is ordered...
...genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work to the 'memory' of a great...