Word: monke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately this constructive suggestion has been anticipated by another educational authority, the late Dr. Rabelais. The monk's visioned Abbaye de Theleme contained all the aids and conveniences thought out in the Dr. Park plan. It went further. The only regulation was "do what you will." But this platform unaccountably failed to attract a constituency. It has remained in darkness for a wheel's full circle. Yet the president of Wheaton College may succeed where the great laugher failed. He has the privilege of being able to confront teachers conclaves with his back to the club message. Rabelais could only...
...Notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin told Tsar Nicholas that the Romanov regime would collapse...
...village church of Hautvillers, last week, French peasants knelt devoutly. In their thoughts and prayers was the name of a man dead these 200 years and more. They paid tribute to the Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon...
...tourists were titillated, last week, by blatant announcement heralding the première of a super-nude review starring Mme. Boris Soloviev, better known as "Rasputin's Daughter" (TIME, July 16). Mme. Soloviev is the daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
...latter thus describes an encounter with the Monk, who had been summoned to answer to the Cabinet for his gross immorality. "He ran his pale eyes over me," declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...