Word: sergius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., Sergius P. Grace heard of the Tate report. A vice president and department head of Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc., the research bureau of the Bell Telephone system and the Western Electric Co., Mr. Grace was at Atlanta for the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
...Sergius Cholmberg, scapegrace grandson of the late Count Leo Tolstoy and son of the Count's daughter Anna, was arrested and tried on a charge of burglary last week in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital. When he wept, begged for mercy, and said that he had read none of his grandfather's writings, the Magistrate let him off with a suspended sentence...
...Last Command" Emil Jannings plays the role of the Grand Duke Sergius Alexandria, own cousin to the Czar, and commander of the Russian Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without...
...Died. Sergius Sazanov, 61, onetime (1914-16) Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire; at Nice...
...Jewett, in his interpretation of Sergius, has realized the effects of the lines to their greatest extent. He bellows and boasts as a Major in the army of Bullgarial; and his poses, hitherto obnoxious, become enjoyable. I was almost induced to go the grave of John the Baptist and apologize for not understanding that he, too, was a braggart. Mr. Jewett forgot that he was the great Shakesperian actor, and became an understanding Shavion interpreter...