Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, the congress listened to the man whom Sir Basil Thomson of Scotland Yard called "the best scientifically equipped man in the police profession." This was Dr. Salvatore Ottolenghi, who established the first police school in the world...
...LaFollette progressives were counted out at the polls last fall, but they have by no means been silenced. Basil M. Manly, LaFollette disciple and mouthpiece, and director of the People's Legislative Service in Washington, last week attempted to revive the old attack on the General Electric Co. as a monopoly in the manufacture and distribution of electric light bulbs. Samuel Untermeyer started the assault with a letter to Mr. Manly on the subject, which the latter made public. The Manhattan lawyer asserted that the General Electric Co. had been allowed to escape prosecution on alleged criminal and civil...
...students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...Basil Ivanovitch came to the U. S. in 1898 as Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Actually, he was the head of the Russian Church throughout North America. In 1907, still only 42 years old, he went home, crowned with honor, was made Archbishop of Jaroslav and Vilna. Those were the days of Pobiedonostsev and Devialkovsky, two of the most tyrannical ecclesiastics in the history of a tyrannical church. Basil, now Archbishop Tikhon, was liberal in his views but discreet in utterance. He advanced. Finally, during the interregnum between Romanov and Lenin, Dr. Tikhon was enthroned as Patriarch...
...Little Minister. It was an unpleasant experience all around, this reopening of Barrie's 30-year-old candy box. It was sad for Barrie, because it showed that time has beaten those early imaginings of his. It was sad for Basil Dean, English director, because it showed (as in Hassan and Peter Pan) that he is second rate. It was chiefly sad for Ruth Chatterton, of whom Alexander Woollcott wrote: "Compared with this unhappy event [Miss Chatterton's playing], the selection of Marilyn Miller seemed nothing short of inspired." Maude Adams alone got praise...