Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow press was full of acrimonious assaults upon the War Lord's alleged criticisms of the Bolshevik regime...
...that the War Lord was living at Archangelskoye, a suburb of Moscow, in the palace of Prince Yusupov. This newspaper claimed that he was sick abed with consumption and stomach trouble, whereas he has usually been reported as suffering from some bronchial affliction. The same paper declared that the Bolshevik Triumvirate-Stalin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, all enemies of the War Lord-was conducting a campaign of hate against him by means of flaming illuminated signs...
Said he (according to the intensely anti-Bolshevik Chicago Tribune) : "I am Bill Haywood, but I ain't a Bolshevik any more. I wish I had never run away from Leavenworth. I am hungry and homesick, and if I cannot find work in Constantinople I am going back to the United States. I had rather live in Leavenworth any time than Bolshevist Russia. It ain't a white man's country...
Russian Ambassadors, too, have been noted in the past for the splendor of their ambassadorial receptions; but all that belongs to another age. Today, working clothes, red ties and other hallmarks of the proletariat are in fashion at the Bolshevik Embassies...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...