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Word: monke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Mlle. Marie Gregoriovna Rasputin, daughter of the notorious monk who was killed by Prince Felix Yusupov (TIME, Dec. 3), said she was about to take up professional dancing, was planning to sell her father's memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Notes, Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

RAIN-The old, old story of Thais and the monk, done in the best style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...omens have been correctly diagnosed, this sad state of affairs is about to be remedied. Mayor James F. Curley, bursting from the confines of his office like the well-known Siberian monk, has issued a set of drastic regulations to curb prevailing immoralities and profanities of the stage. No more will delicate Bostonian ears be shocked with such paipable improprieties as "damn" and "hell"; instead, real hemen will be compelied to relieve their bursting hearts with "My gracious!" and "Oh dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CURLEY BULL | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

...tale which is embodied in I Compagnacci ("The Evil Companions") is laid in Florence during the days of Savonarola and around the historical episode in which the reformer monk defied his enemies to trial by fire. He and a rival monk would walk through a blazing pyre, the one who emerged unscathed would be pronounced by Heaven to be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Operas | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

Some hours later when the Ambassadorial party reached London it was greeted first by a dense fog and then by U. S. Consul General Skinner, J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office, who represented Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, J. Wilson Taylor, Secretary of the Pilgrims who represented Lord Desborough, the President, and by Sir John Henry for Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Kellogg Welcomed | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

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