Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tourists were titillated, last week, by blatant announcement heralding the première of a super-nude review starring Mme. Boris Soloviev, better known as "Rasputin's Daughter" (TIME, July 16). Mme. Soloviev is the daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
...Black. Since the Papist-Fascist issue is thus obvious and clear, it becomes more intriguing to try and extract from Claudia an answer to the still hotly debated question of whether Benito Mussolini is a turncoat politician who changed his Socialist red bandanna for a black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering...
...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...heavy Gothic doors of the cloister trembled, slowly closed, were locked. Inside remained 15 quiet women dressed in white robes, wearing black hoods and capes, carrying rosaries, like strings of beads, with a pendant crucifix. They were nuns of the Dominican Sisterhood, located at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, California. They had pledged themselves to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, to obedience, poverty and chastity. Never may they leave the cloister (except because of fire, leprosy, contagious maladies, or analogous circumstances...
Premet. More than 1,000,000 women are said to have worn the boyish black gown, with white collars and cuffs, which went by the name of La Garconne. It was the House of Premet which invented La Garconne to ride the wave of the novel's popularity. Madame Charlotte, the present head of the house, is herself one of the most beautiful women in Paris, with mauve hair which has an interesting history...