Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most particularly does it deal with the confidence that the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna shared with the author; with the noble work done by "my Empress"; with the blindness and kindness of the Tsar; the pathetic illness of the Tsarevitch; and with many other details, pleasant and unpleasant, connected with the Romanov Family...
...Atlantic City, the Laymen's Committee of the Presbyterian Church, appointed by the last general assembly in Indianapolis to raise $15,000,000 for ministerial relief, adjourned after electing Will H. Hays (former Postmaster General, now cinema Tsar) permanent Chairman. Mr. Hays was in England, but the Committee received assurance that he would assume the task...
...prevailing nonchalance of Washingtonians (D. C.) was disturbed by the discovery that 20,000 of their children were being supplied with hand-me-down textbooks in history and geography, which described Germany as an Empire surmounted by the Kaiser, and St. Petersburg as the home of Tsar Nicholas, the Tsarina and Tsarevitch. The schools of Washington are, of course, dependent upon Congress for guidance and nurture, and it appears that that busy body has been neglectful. Some educators are, however, well pleased. An opportunity is afforded them to convince their pupils that all that is written-even in textbooks...
Married. Reinhold Warlick, 44 concert and opera singer, to Miss Bertha Turk-Rohn, 27, prima donna of the present season of the Voiles Opera, Vienna, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn, in Manhattan. Son of the late Hugo Warlick (business manager of the late Tsar's private orchestra), he was divorced: 1917 from the former Mrs. Edward Judson Ovington, widow of the late owner of the Ovington Gift Shop. Manhattan...
...strong man who extricated himself from the pressure of a Tsar's thumb...