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...Within the last few weeks: "I have no knowledge concerning reports that he has married Sofia Tolstoy, the granddaughter of Count Leo Tolstoy. . . . Sergei Yessenin is not like other...
President Emeritus Eliot compiled recently a list of the ten greatest educators: Aristotle, Galen, Da Vinci, Milton, Shakespeare, Locke, Kant, Bacon, Newton, and Emerson. Of course, his list, like any other, will reap a whirlwind of comment and criticism. Where, for example, is Goethe, Homer, Beethoven, Tolstoy, perhaps, and Rousseau...
...could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back for the 'Varsity. "Hullo, what are you doing here?" you said, as you read: "Heine, Dumas, Kipling, Gaborian, Tolstoy, de Alarcon, Anatole France, Robert Louis Stevenson...
Dukes who recognized him as Emperor." At the same time, His Majesty appointed Grand Duke Dmitri Pavolovitch as his representative in Paris with Count Igor Sacken and Count Tolstoy Miloslavsky respectively as Military and Civil Counselors. These facts were published by Possledny Novosti, Russian newspaper printed in Paris...
...York Times pointed out that the Nobel Prize committee, "on the whole, frowns upon rebels and pessimists"; that Tolstoy lived nine years and Chekhov four years after the prize was established (1901); that Gorky and Andreiev, each with a wide reputation, have never been honored; that the donor's prime purpose was to establish a forum for the genius of small and "backward" nations...