Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arose upon the Senate floor and denounced Halsey, Stuart's financing of Washington real estate in a burst of oratory, bellowing: "In all the ages the tyrant, political, industrial or financial has been the one to suffer the guillotine; and I now warn the Halsey Stuarts, the Dohertys-I warn them all that their power to rob must cease." This attack was centred upon the Wardman Real Estate Properties Inc. holding company for $28,000,000 worth of apartment houses, office buildings and hotels, including famed Wardman Park Hotel...
...shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong, indeed, and at the same time uncertain of its destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the right of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the U. S. : 'to be different is to be indecent...
...another version of the one where the soprano saves the tenor by promising herself to the baritone, then cheats by committing suicide and boasting about it beforehand. The soprano in this case was Rosa Ponselle who sang superbly but looked funny in a Pocahontas get-up luring the Spanish tyrant (Baritone Mario Basiola). The tenor was Brooklyn-born Frederick Jagel who increased his stature but not his dignity by wearing an enormous headpiece ludicrously like the Mad Hatter...
...always liked the picture of the honest, slow, bull necked, barons rumbling down to the waters of Runnymede to defend their rights and the right. All unconscious of the fact that they were transforming English history, interested only in the problems of the day, they confronted the greatest tyrant the nation has ever known and snarled out Magna Charta. The significance of 1215 can be found in Kipling's "The Reeds of Runnymede" which the Vagabond would like to suggest as a comfortable method of absorbing history. Because he knows the lassitude of the mind, he will quote four lines...
...denied reports that if & when the revolution was successful he might possibly be chosen President of Cuba. The Capote family and the other members of the Biltmore junta were not downhearted. To a steady accompaniment of ringing telephones and banging doors they stayed at their posts, denouncing Machado the Tyrant, issuing clarions for Cuba Libre, pouring tea for the Press...