Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very strong! And he was a great healer. Two, three or four times he saved the life of the Tsarevitch-the little son Alexis. So his mother, my sister-in-law, the Tsaritsa ordered Rasputin to come often to attend the Tsarevitch...
...renounces her family, in the second (aged 29) she renounces her lover, in the third (aged 70) she persuades her orphans to renounce their plan of going on the streets to steal. A rambling, idle play, it had a few moments in which the hushed, sad peacefulness of cloistered life became apparent. Generally its moments contained talk, the entrances and exits of characters extraneous to the action and much bad atmosphere...
Therefore John Davison Rockefeller Jr., generous donor to the 36-story Broadway Temple now being completed at Broadway and 174th Street, pleaded last week for skyscraper churches which would lift the glory of God as high as the glory of life insurance and stocks & bonds. Said he, at a banquet of Temple-building bankers: "We do not want the business world to look down on churches...
...LIFE AND TRAGEDY OF ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA-A Biography- Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden- Longmans Green...
...INTIMATE LIFE OF THE LAST TZARINA-Princess Catherine Radziwill- Dial Press...