Word: anastasia
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...Fingers. Everything was handled with great care. Gangsters Albert ("Big Albert") Anastasia, Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles, Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss and Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss spent weeks in planning. One Jacob Migdon spent a long time "fingering" the job, and reported that Orlofsky, a short, fat man, left his Bronx apartment at exactly 7:55 every morning. Thus, when the big day came, Parisi was standing near by at exactly the right time...
Their heads shorn, their eyes red-rimmed, the 60 faced the court-martial last week. Seven were sentenced to death, 14 to life imprisonment; the rest were set free. Dimitrios got off with a life sentence. Said Anastasia Hadsis, whose husband was executed by a firing squad: "Judas has betrayed us and lives...
...immediately established himself as a leader. He went on to the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant in 1893, a second captain in 1899, a captain of cavalry in 1901. In 1904 he went off to fight in the Russo-Japanese War as a lieutenant colonel...
...veteran of World War I (named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
Died. Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, 67, widow of Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War; at her villa in the French Maritime Alps. A daughter of the first and last King of Montenegro, she was a sister of Queen Elena of Italy and an aunt of the assassinated Alexander I of Yugoslavia...