Word: autocratically
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...Uritsky Palace, onetime Taurid Palace, was built by Catherine the Great for her lover, Gregory Aleksandrovitch Potemkin. It was there, 21 years ago, that the first Duma (Parliament) met, only to be suppressed by the fiat of the Autocrat of All the Russias, Nicholas...
...politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...
...engaged in the gesture of proclaiming himself "Dictator." In a harsh, compelling voice he swore a 20-word oath of his own devising, to the effect that his armies will now "purge China of Communism." Unfortunately all this meant nothing whatever. Chang has always been an absolute autocrat in his own dominions. He has told correspondents almost every day for at least a year that his armies were going to "purge China of Communism"; but those armies were in retreat last week toward Peking, driven from South China by the great "Nationalist" Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, June...
...occasions when the President secretly tells an obedient press what he would like to have printed about himself. . . are now little more than the personal publicity machine of Calvin Coolidge. . . . For a modest and a timid man Mr. Coolidge has a quite extraordinary fondness for the privileges of an autocrat...
...charming talkers of the Saturday Club, one of Boston's proudest traditions, where gathered for dinner Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, and others, he was admitted to be the most sparkling. It is fortunate that his wit and brilliance have been preserved for posterity in the table talks of the "Autocrat" and the "Professor...