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Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
...awfully clever fellow, besides being extremely goodhearted. He is so thoughtful, too. One rather chilly day as I came to the executive palace to work on his portrait I was pleasantly surprised to find the room heated. His servant then said to me, 'Oh, that was done at the President's personal order. He thought you might find it disagreeable to work in a cold room...
...Budapest was reported the timely finding of Schubert's Gastein symphony, missing now for 102 years. It came from one Feri Vambery, a book collector, who got it from Irme Havasi, a bookkeeper who inherited it from a great granduncle, servant in the house of Count Esterházy at Zélesz (Hungary). There the shy, round Schubert used to go to teach young Caroline Esterházy. He left his manuscript one day and Great Granduncle Havasi stole it, left it when he died as his legacy. Last year the Columbia Phonograph Co. offered...
...Hughes marked him, later appointed him his gubernatorial secretary and right hand man. A graduate of Harvard (1888), 18 years a newspaperman-reporter, editor, political pundit-he spent the last 20 years of his life in public service, representing Mr. Hughes's "ideal of the faithful, intelligent public servant, the sort that makes democracy worth while...
...have believed that Davey "play-acted" a gallant knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey...