Word: anastasias
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...rocky isle of Saint Anastasia in the Black Sea is Bulgaria's Elba. One dawn last week in Sofia, before the hordes of milch goats were out on the streets, police burst into the homes of two Bulgar would-be Napoleons, dragged them from their beds, gave them each a few minutes to dress, bundled them off to Saint Anastasia...
...agonized protest with a bullet from his revolver. The Cheka gunmen opened fire. Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth. She was killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline-soaked pyres...
...born Tsarina produced an heir to the throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher's assistant from Lyons who claimed to be the reincarnation...
Gloria Scigliano swam from the shore to the island on the same day: time, 57 minutes. Miss Anastasia Scott, daughter of an Army sergeant stationed on the island, negotiated the distance in 47 minutes earlier in the week. In line with efforts of criminals who might attempt this means of escape, she started from the island. The feat was also accomplished by one Mabel Green as far back...
...Faville, E. H. Pringle, Jr., Brad Datson, W. L. Dana, J. DeQ. Briggs, Mary Morse, H. Babcock Brown, Eleanor Howe, Stanley D. Peirce, Jane Ewell, Edward Rowe, Marguerite Roberts, James Fella Hill, Alice Roberts, Adele Joan Lambrose, Charles A. Dale, Spencer D. Ortherger, Catherine Fitzgerald, Joseph F. Fitzgerald, Anastasia Seramovna, David Worcester, V. O. Jones...