Word: baedekerian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Soviet official. But Barmine had kept as far away from politics as possible. He had always voted the straight Stalinist ticket. He had immersed himself in his diplomatic chores and a Baedekerian interest in Greek architecture and antiquities. During the early days of the Purge, people he knew were dropping right & left in Russia. But Barmine hoped that the bullets would somehow miss...
...Karl Baedeker's son Fritz catalogued Britain for future tourist generations with the same 19th-Century Teutonic thoroughness his father had lavished on the rest of Europe. But few British cathedrals, Christopher Wren churches or public monuments rated the final cachet of Baedekerian approval -two asterisks. Salisbury Cathedral did, but the Houses of Parliament got only...
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