Word: patriarch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) was forced through Parliament by Dictator Bratiano with no other purpose than to secure as regents three puppets. First is Prince Nicholas, 23, a youth of no experience in statecraft; and the other two regents, both over 60, and both "Bratiano men," are the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rumania, Miron Cristea, and Supreme Court Chief Justice G. V. Buzdugan. The choice of Chief Justice Buzdugan was especially shrewd because, if the Regency Act is unconstitutional, as many jurists contend, it can only be declared so by the Supreme Court...
Then came the snowy-bearded Patriarch, his long robes sweeping the ground, his voice quavering, and very earnest. King Michael, with the frank innocence of childhood, burst out laughing at this funny...
Lastly Chief Justice Buzdugan strode forward, determined not to be laughed at. Shrewd, he muttered his oath rapidly and almost inaudibly, scarcely attracting the attention of His Majesty, whose eyes still rested with a twinkle on the unfortunate Patriarch...
Last week the National Broadcasting Co. (Manhattan) announced that Dr. Walter Damrosch, retired patriarch of Carnegie Hall and the New York Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Dec. 27), would, beginning in October, conduct 24 orchestral concerts before the National microphones, prefacing each performance with a talk on the composition of the evening and explanations about the "instruments in the band...
...dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty cotton acres; the giggling creek, Blue Brook, and the threatening, dreamy big river with a sandy island and soaring fish hawks. The figures moving everywhere are dominated by a blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon him by a God in whom he took small stock. Gangrene eats away the feet upon which he so confidently stood all his life. His toes drop right off in a basin. Some...