Word: real
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure of Ambassador Sokolnikov's loyalty. So accompanying him to St. James's Palace was Dmitri Bogomoloff, Councilor of the Embassy, recently Minister to Poland, reorganizer of Moscow's entire Foreign Intelligence Service. It was no secret to most foreign observers that Councilor Bogomooff's real job in London would be to follow every move of Ambassador Sokolnikov, to report directly to Stalin himself...
...cave were sometimes so cold the snakes would creep to him for warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything like that. "Because I have put away the world," he said. "And now I will still know that no one is thinking about me, that I am here all alone...
...hearty agreement with Protestant Lynch was the editor of The Living Church. Said he: "Evidently it has waited for a Congregational minister to frame the real issue; and we thank Dr. Lynch for doing it so well...
...Author. Theodore Dreiser's real name is Dresser. (His songwriting brother Paul, author of "The Wabash Blues," still calls himself Dresser.) Born in Indiana in 1871, he wrote for newspapers (Chicago Globe}, was traveling correspondent for St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited Butterick Publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea). Fat-cheeked, loose-lipped, furrowed of brow, Author Dreiser looks like what he is: a puzzled brooder over the tragic inconsistencies of life. Other books: The "Genius," Chains, Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy...
...occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys. William and Frederick. When a boy slouched round-shouldered out of the dining room. Mr. O's eye was upon him and that boy was sent to get more exercise, more fresh air. Except for a real excuse, every boy had to play football and Mr. O went to the field every day to watch one and all, issue brusque suggestions, take mental notes to pass on to parents...