Word: rasputine
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...Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin met his death was to be told under oath...
...theatrical was his appearance, so unbelievable was his career that simple domestic folk are apt to think that Gregory Rasputin never really existed. He did. There are many people living who knew him well...
...Gregory Rasputin was never really a monk. Born in Western Siberia, he was ordered banished to Eastern Siberia for persistent immorality, escaped before the sentence could be executed, worked as a bellboy in a bawdy house, later traveled from monastery to monastery doing odd jobs for the monks. He learned to read and quote the Bible and he developed an uncanny faculty for working on the sympathies of women. His beard, his matted hair and peasant blouse are familiar to the world, but those who knew him best remember most his pale, dark-circled eyes. Rasputin was definitely hypnotic...
...tantrums and occasionally to stop his bleeding. He ran an elaborate spy service of his own through which he was able to keep the Little Father advised on court intrigues. He gave extraordinary breakfast parties at which his handsome hobble-skirted admirers were permitted to lick the fingers that Rasputin had just dunked in his fish soup. During the War he was strongly suspected of being a German agent...
...Rasputin and The Empress ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...