Word: ilya
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...allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk-house-Nikolai Kanadev; Engineer Thornton-Ilya Browde; Engineer Cushny-Peter Lidov; Engineers Nordwall & Gregory-Aaron Dolmatovski. Commented Correspondent Walter Duranty...
...year. Chairman and head of the U. S. and Canadian movement is Allen Boyer McDaniel, Washington engineer. The organization is simple; there is no proselytizing. People may join (and contribute money) of their own volition. Some who have shown interest are King Zog I of Albania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great novelist; Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime Lieutenant Governor, whose daughter was married in a Baha'i ceremony (TIME, March 10, 1930); Solon Fieldman, onetime Socialist leader; Dow ager Queen Marie of Rumania...
Among famed Bahai communicants are: Queen Marie of Rumania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great Russian novelist; Zog I of Albania...
...snakes would creep to him for warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything like that. "Because I have put away the world," he said. "And now I will still know that no one is thinking about me, that I am here all alone...
...When America falls from the fiftysixth story of the Woolworth Building, there will be a bad crash," declared Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the famous Russian philosopher, now lecturing in this country...