Word: xenia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note, you refer to the "contribution and refund" system in vogue at certain race tracks, whereby bettors get "prize" for around the the horse law by they hope (bet) "contributing" will to a win, and add: The same system is in use on tracks in Xenia, Toledo and Cincinnati...
What the dying Empress whispered in reply could not be heard, but she managed to smile in farewell, and the big Cossack was led away by her physician, sobbing like a broken-hearted child. Present when Death came were the Empress's daughters, Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Xenia; with the latter's son Prince Vessli, members of the Danish Royal Family, and lastly Prince Dolgouriki, grizzled Major Domo, lifelong friend, faithful servitor...
...flame. The actress, her dress ablaze, fell to the floor. Leeds grabbed her, lugged her to the dock; then he pushed the Fan Tail into the harbor where it soon exploded and sank. On the; dock watching this performance was Mrs. William B. Leeds, onetime Princess Xenia of Greece, and Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though burned, took Actress Astaire to a doctor for treatment, then packed her off to a Manhattan hospital, where it was said her injuries were not serious. He himself, less severely burned, went to his home in Oyster...
...Princess Xenia of Russia, second cousin once removed of the late Tsar Nicholas II, is better known in Manhattan as rich Mrs. William B. Leeds. Three months ago she brought to the U. S. as her guest a famed & mysterious young woman, "Mme. Tchaikovsky" (TIME, Feb. 20), who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas the Last...
...with a flair for the romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...