Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just man, tenacious of his purpose, is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow-citizens bidding what is wrong nor by the face of a threatening tyrant nor by the uncontrollable storms of the sea nor by the mighty hand of thundering Jove. If the vault of Heaven should break and crash upon him, he would stand amid its ruins undismayed...
What confused ideas does the name "Lenin" conjure up to the mind of the man in the street! Russian and Bolshevik, of course, and probably fanatic, anarchist, tyrant, genius, as well. Yet how few have any knowledge of the true character of the leader of the Russian Revolution, certainly one of the most remarkable men of the century...
...food expert, says that indigestion has finally been found to be the cause of nearly half of all human illness. But still more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
Meanwhile Reichswehr and police held every important point in the town. A performance of La Tosca was for bidden at the opera house, it being stated that conspirators intended to use the death of the tyrant scene as a signal for an insurrection. Much hostility toward the police was evinced by the crowds...
There is no tyrant so absolute as an editor within the confines of his paper. His slaves tremble at his glance. One word from him makes or un-makes a nobly formed article. If he's so inclined, there is no end to the whims which become solemn law by his decree. If he is so inclined, and has wisdom, he may make far-reaching innovations. There are thousands of these petty tyrants throughout the country. Readers sojourning in the principality of one, are often totally unaware of what is a capital offence in another-or what, by royal...