Word: axel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionist's bomb. Her aunt married her off to a Swedish prince when she was 18. Marie liked her husband less and less, got the marriage annulled, went back to Russia. Meantime she visited Italy for her health, and there was a patient of "Dr. M." (Axel Munthe, author of The Story of San Michele), whom she grew to distrust and finally fled. During the War she worked as a nurse, first at the front, later in hospitals. When the Revolution came Marie had met her second husband, Prince Putiatin. They were married in the midst of Red uproars...
...Story of San Michele, a current "best seller," (TIME, Nov. 24) Dr. Axel Munthe describes with righteous indignation the practice in Italy some years ago of putting out the eyes of song birds, which were then used as decoys for the capture of other birds...
...Evans Hughes' daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best...
...Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel Munthe) has been dead only since April...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...