Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meanwhile, "Jim," famed gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after...
...altered, and Christian became Crown Prince amid general astonishment (1852). Fortune's darling if ever mortal was, he not only became King Christian IX of Denmark but lived to see three of his children monarchs: King George I of Greece (reigned 1883-1913, assassinated 1913) ; Queen Empress Alexandra of Britain (reigned 1901-1910, died 1925); and the Empress Marie of Russia (reigned 1881-1894, aged at present...
...Europe the marriage was momentous. The Tsarinas of Russia had been German since Catharine II (1762-1796). But the Empress Marie avowedly hated Germany and the Germans, and her sister was Alexandra of Britain. It was in the reign of the Empress Marie that the alienation of Moscow from Berlin became as marked as its rapprochement with London...
...nature to the Tsar, who saw in him the daily savior of the Tsarevitch Alexis' life, and thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
These remarks on liberty are particularly apropos in face of the recent decision of the State Department to exclude Alexandra Kollontai because she might spread Communist propoganda. President Gray's suggestion that there be a Boston Common in every city of the United States where every radical should be allowed to air his views, would surely lead to a more healthy condition of affairs than that fostered by the careful exclusion policy of Secretary Kellogg. The trite speeches of uninteresting radicals will surely do less to harm the great American public than the overthrow of a policy of widespread education...