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Olgivanna and her
Olgivanna believed in mysticism and had become convinced that Alliluyeva was a spiritual replacement for her own daughter, also named Svetlana.

Olgivanna and was
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.
Olgivanna Lazovich who later became Mrs. Olgivanna Lloyd Wright when she married the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was a student of Gurdjieff, as was their daughter, Iovanna Lloyd Wright.
In October 1922, Mansfield moved to Georges Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France, where she was under the care of Olgivanna Lazovitch Hinzenburg ( later Mrs Frank Lloyd Wright ).

Olgivanna and .
Even so, many of the things that happened to Wright and Olgivanna seem inordinately severe.
and during the unhappy time, Miriam often would charge that Wright and Olgivanna were misdemeanants against the public order of Wisconsin.
Yet somehow, when officers were prodded into visiting Taliesin to execute the warrants, they would find neither Wright nor Olgivanna at home.
Billy Koch, who had once worked for Wright as a chauffeur, gave a deposition for Miriam's use that he had seen Olgivanna living at Taliesin.
* Svetlana Hinzenberg, daughter of Olgivanna Hinzenberg and a future stepdaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1970, Alliluyeva answered an invitation from Frank Lloyd Wright's widow, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, to visit Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Lady Sybil Vimes ( full title: Her Grace, The Duchess of Ankh, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes ( née Ramkin )), is Vimes's wife, whom he married at the end of Men at Arms.
The work is populated by architect Louis Sullivan, friends Ayn Rand and Alexander Woollcott, son John Lloyd Wright, wives Catherine and Olgivanna, and paramour Mamah Cheney.

her and country
His sailing vessel is guided by fate to the shores of his own country at a time when Sibylla's domain is overrun by the armies of one of her rejected suitors.
She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
`` We have checked her in different parts of Europe and Egypt and finally back into this country.
She was apparently the pioneer in her family because she had no close relatives in this country at that time.
As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.
The last obstacle in Mrs. Geraghty's globe-girdling trip was smoothed out when a representative of Syria called upon her to explain that his brother would meet her at the border of that country -- so newly separated from Egypt and the United Arab Republic that she hadn't been able to obtain a visa.
Just because she had a part on the stage in the old country, she thought she could carry her head higher than ours ''.
Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.
But she was learning that so long as she was in this country, and wore civilian dress in the Club, there would always be transient young men who would approach her with broken English.
Just the same, the old woman said, she would write to her nephew in his boxcar and tell him she had met a nice man from his adopted country.
In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.
The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".
Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
Beatrix and her brother were allowed great freedoms in the country and both children became adept students of natural history.
As a result, Beatrix came to meet Hardwicke Rawnsley, incumbent vicar at Wray and later the founding secretary of the National Trust, whose interest in the countryside and country life inspired the same in Beatrix and who was to have a lasting impact on her life.
Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

her and nickname
* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".
Traditionally, the batizado is the moment when the new practitioner gets or formalizes his or her apelido ( nickname, in English ).
where she prefers to be known as Clara Kappelhoff, combining an old nickname (" Clara ", by friend Billy de Wolfe ) and her family name at birth.
) Thomas named the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, whose nickname was " Wenda ", stemming from the child's inability to say her own name at a young age.
Gardner would subsequently give her the nickname " Dafo ", for which she would become better known.
She has blue eyes like Gerald O ' Hara and Melanie gives her the nickname, " Bonnie Blue ," in reference to the Bonnie Blue Flag of the Confederacy.
* Aunt Pittypat Hamilton: Her real name is Sarah Jane Hamilton, but she acquired the nickname " Pittypat " in childhood because of the way she walked on her tiny feet.
Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.
Still many, however, continue to find the legends more memorable than the history, seeing her as a traitor, as may be assumed from a legend that she had a twin sister who went North and the pejorative nickname La Chingada associated with her twin.
The fellow whose nickname made up the title was played by Tom Ewell, and the female lead, Susan Oliver, won the Theatre World Award for her performance, while the Irwin Shaw adaptation opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on 28 October 1958 and closed on November 1.
Mrs. Robert Swanson of West Miami won lifetime passes to Dolphin games when her nickname entry successfully predicted the winner and score of the 1965 football game between Notre Dame and the University of Miami, a scoreless tie.
After an incident where her dress caught fire on an iron grate when she was about three, her mother began dressing her in boys ' pants, and she was given the nickname " Jimmy " from the comic strip, Little Jimmy.
This and her taste for splendor inspired the derogatory nickname " Queen Nancy ".
Allegedly, he chose the " Peter " to honor a young girl whom he remembered as an unrequited love ( it had been her nickname ).
She is reluctant to reveal this part of her background, as she does not want to be known by a nickname she had been called earlier in life -- the Dancing Doctor.
Early in their marriage, Harding bestowed on her the lasting nickname " Duchess " as a nod to the imperious ( and often alienating ) persona she shared with her father.
The British shot is said to have bounced off the Constitutions sides, earning her the nickname " Old Ironsides ".
As a young child, Nicks had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, instead pronouncing it " tee-dee ", which became the nickname " Stevie ".
** For example: One specific person may be identified by all of the following identifiers: Jane Smith ; Jane Elizabeth Meredith Smith ; Jane E. M. Smith ; Jane E. Smith ; Janie Smith ; Janie ; Little Janie ( as opposed to her mother or sister or cousin, Big Janie ); Aunt Jane ; Auntie Janie ; Mom ; Grandmom ; Nana ; Kelly's mother ; Billy's grandmother ; Ms. Smith ; Dr. Smith ; Jane E. Smith, PhD ; and Fuzzy ( her jocular nickname at work ).

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