Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed and painstakingly trained at the Italian Leghorn Naval Academy. As one Dictator to another, Benito Mussolini was delighted to build and sell a navy to the "King of Kings" who began his career as a soldier, became a Cossack, next a General, then Premier & Dictator, finally Shah of Persia...
...cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier's own sovereign, was once a Cossack sergeant...
...intellect. Boxofficially he has been outdone by Kreisler and Heifetz, in one case by emotional appeal, in the other by technical facility. But Zimbalist's prestige has been slowly, steadily growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...
...Lieutenant Alfred M. Greunther and two assistants said, "No, no!" Noises were heard from a room where reporters, informed by messengers of the progress of the match, were compiling their stories. Said Mr. Culbertson, who was brought up in the Caucasus and whose mother was the daughter of a Cossack: "Who's walking around all the time squashing their Russian boots?" Playing sounder bridge than the first night, the Culbertson team won three rubbers, the Lenz-Jacoby four, Lenz & Jacoby increasing their point lead...
Conductor Jaroff, small and spry as a cricket, is the chorus' most compelling individual on & off stage. Last year's audiences marked also with special interest Cossack Tierekov, a bass said to have the lowest voice on record, and Cossack Ovtchinikov, whose falsetto is so high that the Don Cossacks are often suspected of concealing a woman in their ranks. Hostesses who entertained the Russians last year or who hired them as performing bears for parties, will remember: handsome Cossack Magnuschensky, the lady-killer, Cossack Kolesnikoff, a bright, understanding little fellow who has a score of anecdotes ready...