Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About a year later, Okladsky was the highest paid ordinary official of the notorious Okrana or Tsarist secret police. He was created a "personal noble" (noble for life), later an hereditary nobleman.* In Moscow, before his Bolshevik judges, he said that he had been forced to betray his Nihilist comrades under the inhuman torture to which he was subjected while awaiting execution and, at the price of his freedom, had consented to join the Okrana and work for the Tsar...
...marches, into Fleet Street, haunt of journalists. A Gentleman with a Duster spies him and makes these notes: "Tall— ;rigid-lean gray face-heavy-lidded eyes-of an almost Asian deadness-upper lip projects-stonelike- impassive-like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky- like a poor Russian nobleman...
...look out from history, nameless, irreproachable, erect. Much have they seen since one Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, by painting them, preserved their finery from the fate that overtook its fashion. Lately, they have been themselves much watched, talked of?that serene lady, that impeccable gentleman:?because a destitute nobleman, Felix Yusupov, once prince in Russia, sold them to a U. S. financier and art collector, Joseph E. Widener, of Philadelphia, so cheaply that he felt himself cheated (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week in Philadelphia, they were spoken of again?and for another reason. Their owner announced that since...
...which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there?God bless my soul?goes the finest driver I have ever seen...
Hottinguer, the son of a French nobleman, took his baccalaureate at the Sorbonne in Paris. He will continue higher commercial studies as a special student in the Graduate School of Business Administration...