Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Duke Nicholas, cousin of Tsar Nicholas II (who with his family was reported to have been murdered by the Bolsheviki at Ekaterinburg), and one time Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Russian Army, was reported to be preparing for a "peaceful conquest" of Soviet Russia...
This peaceful penetration program does not contradict the agreement recently reached by the Imperial Russian Family at Paris (TIME, Dec. 10), except regarding the recognition as Tsar of the Grand Duke Cyril by the family, which was guaranteed if the question were to arise in the future. The House of Romanov decided to back the Grand Duke Nicholas' plan, but promised to consider Tsar Nicholas alive. "If and when Russia is reconquered, should it be found that the Ekaterinburg murders really took place, the Russian people will be asked to hold a plebiscite for a new Tsar...
...13th of February I sat in the salon at the piano. In came my mother and went to the grand. She began to play. Tomy question as to what she was playing she replied, with an abstract gaze, "Schubert's Lob der Tränen" (In Praise of Tears). A few minutes later the valet brought news that father was very ill. Never shall I forget how my mother dashed through the door. . . . When I saw her in later years at rehearsals the festival productions, representing roles as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde or Brünilde, my mind often reverted...
...guard against commercialization, such students must meet the surgical requirements of the Royal College of Surgeons or the American College of Surgeons. In addition to English and French members of the Clinic staff, two Americans, Dr. J. Eastman Sheehan of New York and Dr. Ferris N. Smith of Grand Rapids, Mich., both having extensive War experience, are associated with the movement. Dentists, artists and sculptors will cooperate...
Died. Rev. John Clifford, 87, the "Grand Old Man of Nonconformity," in London, of heart failure...