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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, it was revealed at London that Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), although an apostle of religious humility and the other cheek, once made a sharp retort to Bernard Shaw. The occasion was the submission by Mr. Shaw of several of his works for criticism to the Count. Tolstoy's letter in reply was released, in London, by erudite Mr. Aylmer Maude, now collecting and translating Tolstoyana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tolstoy to Shaw | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...elections, on Monday and Tuesday, will be entirely given over to the care of the Freshman Dormitory Committee, appointed early last fall. The members of these committees will be in charge of the voting booths on these two days and will count the votes at the end of this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORMITORY COMMITTEES WILL HANDLE 1931 VOTE | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...Count von Luckner arrived in Boston yesterday and during his two day stay he has four lectures listed with full houses assured for all of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR "SEA DEVIL" SPEAK | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...popularity is due to his sea-roving expeditions through the allied blockades during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR "SEA DEVIL" SPEAK | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...position of Count Luckner's legs shows the result of much walking the quarter deck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR "SEA DEVIL" SPEAK | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

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