Word: tsars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which each paid $400. This figures out to a total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products of Red workers and property confiscated from onetime Russian aristocrats, all of which the U. S. shoppers seemed eager to buy. They paid, according to Pravda, "more than $50,000 for confiscated property alone." Ever...
Will H. Hays, tsar of U. S. cinema, sailed home from France last week feeling something like Owen D. Young. Under his chairmanship a meeting of German and U. S. cinemanufacturers (TIME, June 30) had at last concluded a Pact of Paris on patents and markets...
...years she has been one of Washington's up-&-doing hostesses. She acquired the title of countess through her marriage with Count Joseph Gizycka, Austrian-Pole, whom she met in St. Petersburg and Vienna and married in 1904. After their divorce in 1908 she appealed to the Tsar, won custody of their daughter Felicia. In 1925 she married Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer. After his death she resumed her maiden name...
...Like Tsar Nicholas II's sickly little Tsarevitch, the Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain) was afflicted from birth with haemophilia, a dread and supposedly incurable disease. When a haemophile receives even the slightest cut his wound heals so slowly that from the merest scratch he may bleed to death. The Prince of the Asturias, 23, suddenly appeared in Paris not only in apparent good health but palpably, impressively robust...
...past two years rumors issuing from Spain have pictured Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie as coming under the influence of a necromantic physician such as the notorious Rasputin. As doting Tsar Nicholas II fell under Rasputin's spell because he believed that the "Black Monk" and he alone could stop the bleeding of the Tsarevitch, so the Spanish Royal family were said by their enemies to be the dupes of a second charlatan. Spanish censorship veiled the facts...