Word: blench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems to have offended him, but this tactless reminder was too much for even his cynicism: thereafter it was distinctly understood that the Anthem should never be played in his presence...
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