Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made this summer by A. J. Ostheimer '29, who last year made the first ascent of Mt. Lyell, another peak in the same range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same region. A general survey of as much of the entire district as is possible will also be made...
...honeymooners and spreeing butter-and-eggers will start raining quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people have patronized the first Photomaton studio, on Broadway, including Governor Smith, who played there for an hour, and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays. Business may get bad for passport artists and proprietors of half-moon parlors. Photomaton Inc. looks for lively trade from police departments, commutation ticket offices, license bureaus-wherever quick recording and identification are needed. Meantime Inventor Jo-sepho, who is a Socialist only three years removed from...
...weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian X, of Norwegian King Haakon...
...realm of Little Tsar Boris III assassins still throw bombs with long sputtering fuses in the good old way. The bombee, if an experienced official, has at least a sporting chance of snuffing out the fuse before explosion happens. Therefore, last week, when a bomb hurtled past Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff as he was entering his house at Sofia and rolled ahead of him down the dark hall, the worst was not necessarily to be feared. . . . Experienced, adept, Chief Ikonomoff did not flee out into the street, but sought to protect his household by darting forward to extinguish...
...July 15 the Tsar and his family were expecting to be rescued by Czechoslovak troops who were advancing toward Ekaterinburg, where the Imperial family were imprisoned. The local "People's Committee" ordered the Tsar and his family executed on July 16-one year after his abdication. Fifteen days later, too late, the Czechoslovaks took Ekaterinburg...