Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rasputin. When a guest broached to the Grand Duke Alexander the subject of the notorious "Black Monk" called Rasputin, or the "Debauchee," he recoiled with a slight gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very...
...many of the Imperial Family are safely out of Russia and in comfortable circumstances, the Grand Duke Alexander exclaimed: "Comfortable! We are none of us comfortable! But I understand you-perhaps there are 30 of us who are what you call 'in comfortable circumstances.' There is my wife and I have six children.* Perhaps there are a few more than 30 of the Imperial Family who have enough to buy the few things we want. I write books, and now I lecture. I teach not a religion but Spirituality that is in all religions. Every one! But especially...
...Boston, Mrs. Alvan Tufts Fuller, wife of Governor Fuller, presented Serge Koussevitzky with the first Boston Symphony Orchestra records made under his leadership for the Victor Talking Machine Co. The records were of Stravinsky's Petrovshka and an excerpt from the new Apollon Musagete, both, according to Conductor Koussevitzky, peculiarly adapted for successful recording...
...marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved to London. Splendorous as hostess & socialite was Princess Clara in both Germany and England. At one London bal masque she wore toe rings of diamonds...
...wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, on her way to a smart London dinner, stepped from her limousine into an open coal chute, partly disappeared. Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy...