Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James O'Neill, Jr., actor, 43, son of the late James O'Neill (actor, hero of The Count of Monte Cristo), brother of Eugene O'Neill, playwright (The Emperor Jones, The Straw, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape), at a Trenton, N. J., hospital...
...bold enough to nominate various candidates for my hand. First, Miss Millicent Rogers, who ' despite her industrial wealth does not look like an American. . . . When she appeared at the Southampton Street Fair ... in a hindu costume. . . .' Secondly, Miss Abby Rockefeller, 'pretty granddaughter of the oil emperor,' who is 'well chaperoned by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' Thirdly, Miss Alice De Lamar, late mine operator's daughter, ' worth ten millions in her own right' and ' reputed a beauty.' Fourthly, Miss Alice Muriel Astor...
...album was presented by the Emperor, William 1 and the Empress Augusta to Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a famous dentist of Paris. Beside the elaborate binding the volume contains a medallion of the Emperor. It has been temporarily deposited in the Library for exhibition by C.F. Muller...
About Prohibition: "... a word on the immense service he rendered it (the army) at the beginning of the War in suppressing the manufacture and sale of vodka. . . . The Emperor did this entirely on his own initiative, without advice from his ministers or the Grand Dukes. The Emperor said at the time: ' At least by this will I be remembered...
About Rasputine's death: "The Emperor was affected less by the deed itself than by the fact that it was the work of members of his own family [Grand Dukes Dmitri and Yusupoff]. ' Before all Russia,' he exclaimed, ' I am filled with shame that the hands of my kinsmen are stained with the blood of a simple peasant...