Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of its bitter attacks on the late President Woodrow Wilson), and Lydia Lopokova, 33, famed Russian danseuse...
Wednesday afternoon, at the Women's Republican Club a concert of pieces for the piano by Mme. Lydia Kniagevitch and of songs by Marizita Williamson. The piano pieces include selections from Borodin, Glinku, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin and the vocal music likewise comes from the Russians...
...Pskoff, to search the doings of Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured of scrofula, Nadya Kolkova of a chronic abscess, Natasha Arcipova of paralysis. Thousands of tears had been efficaciously shed. The police-themselves but humble Bolsheviks-trembled to lay hands upon the holy man who conducted so holy a shrine. But they feared Moscow more. They arrested Troitski...
...Washburn (president of the American Psychological Association, 1922), Lillien J. Martin, Mary W. Calkins, Ethel Puffer Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise Pearce, pathologists; Anna Johnson Pell or Charlotte Scott, mathematicians; Mary E. Pennington, chemist; Ellen Churchill Semple, geographer; S. Josephine Baker or Daisy Robinson, sanitarians, and several others. All of these women have national or international scientific reputations...
...casts for the two plays. "The Trap" and 'T'he First Day", which the 47 Workshop will present at Agassiz House Thursday and Saturday, March 29 and 31, were announced yesterday. "The Trap" was written by Lydia Garrison and "The First Day", a comedy in one act, by J. M. Brown '23. Both performances will be restricted to members of the 47 Workshop and those on its guest list...